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t-Butyl hydroperoxide and an alkyl-lithium in dry tetrahydrofuran are shown to epoxidise α,β-unsaturated esters and sulphones efficiently in a stereo- and regio-specific manner, while esters of chiral alcohols undergo diastereofacially selective epoxidation.
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Clark et al. (1986) studied this question.
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