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Tantalum good, titanium bad: This appears to be the case for silica-supported catalysts for the asymmetric epoxidation of allyl alcohols. Complexes such as [SiO-Ta(OEt)(4)] were prepared from silica and [Ta(=CHCMe(3))(CH(2)CMe(3))(3)], and in the presence of a tartrate and an alkyl hydroperoxide, these surface tantalum compounds lead to efficient and convenient catalysts for the asymmetric epoxidation of 2-propen-1-ol (R=H) and trans-2-hexen-1-ol (R=nPr; see reaction).
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Meunier et al. (1999) studied this question.
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