A procedure for regioselective monoepoxidation of mainly the less substituted double bond of 1,3-dienes with sodium hypochlorite or iodosylbenzene using various metal complexes as catalysts is presented; the results obtained are different from those found when applying the usual epoxidation reagents.
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Thomsen et al. (1992) studied this question.