The carboxylation and epoxidation reactions are said to be coupled.
2.
Transition metal hypochlorites are generally unheard of, although hypochlorite will briefly coordinate to a Mn ( III )-salen complex during the Jacobsen epoxidation reaction.
3.
This mechanism, which was originally proposed by John Groves to explain porphyrin-catalyzed epoxidation reactions, is commonly referred to as a " side-on perpendicular approach ".
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Compounds containing dioxirane as a functional group, called "'dioxiranes "', often possess better stability and are used in organic synthesis as oxidizing reagents, most notably as the key catalytic intermediate in the Shi epoxidation reaction.
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Using a base mediated epoxidation reaction, structure 3 was achieved, which led to structure 4 after exhaustive hydroxymethylation in the presence of DBU . The formation of structure 4 is particularly impressive it not only forms two important C-C bonds in one step, but also occurs in quantitative yield.
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They studied the action of a P450 enzyme contained in the pathway ( TamI ) by purifying it from a recombinant host, and saw, " in vitro ", that it can oxidize multiple oxidation steps, namely tirandamycin A into tirandamycin B and tirandamycin D into tirandamycin A, which correspond to two hydroxylations and one epoxidation reaction.