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Two important factors are proposed to select the course of singlet oxygen reactions with olefins. The polarity of olefin π bond and the intermolecular nonbonded attraction controls the orientation of the initially-attacking oxygen atom and the tailing one in a perepoxide structure, respectively.
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Inagaki et al. (1976) studied this question.
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