A bright blue fluorescent graphene oxide that originates from passivation of surface reactive sites by amide formation and ring-opening amination of epoxide has been prepared. The surface polarity and charges of the fluorescent graphene oxide can synchronously be tuned by varying the used alkylamines.

The first asymmetric ring-expansion carbonylation of meso-epoxides to β-lactones is reported. Two structurally diverse chiral Cr(III) chloro complexes in conjunction with Co(2)(CO)(8) were shown to be competent catalytic systems for this transformation, displaying significant levels of asymmetric induction of up to 56% ee.

Cooperative bimetallic catalysis has been documented in several recently reported asymmetric epoxide opening reactions that display second-order kinetic dependence on catalyst, specific requirements for multiple metal ions, and/or pronounced catalyst nonlinear effects.1 In such systems, one metal is proposed to serve as Lewis acid for epoxide activation and another as counterion for the nucleop...

Trideuteriated trichothecenes can be generated from diacetoxyscirpenol by a reaction sequence involving acetylation, epoxide deoxygenation, allylic oxidation, deuterium exchange, epoxidation, and reduction.

Mechanistic studies have revealed that the isospecific polymerization of epoxides by a discrete salen cobalt(III) catalyst occurs at the surface of the undissolved, crystalline complex.

The chemical investigation of the organic extract of Canistrocarpus cervicornis, collected at Drunken Man's Cay at Port Royal, Jamaica, has led to the isolation of two new dolastane diterpenes 4R-acetoxy-8S,9S-epoxy-14S-hydroxy-7-oxodolastane (1) and 4R-hydroxy-8S,9S-epoxy-14S-hydroxy-7-oxodolastane (2) and the previously isolated dolastane (4R,9S,14S)-4,9,14-trihydroxydolast-1(15),7-diene (3) ...

Total synthesis of the proposed structure of a polyketide isolated from Phialomyces macrosporus is described. The synthesis involved chemoselective epoxidation, regioselective epoxide ring opening, chemo- and diastereoselective dihydroxylation, and vinylation of lactone accompanied by the formation of a furan ring.

Highly fluorinated epoxides were polymerized under mild conditions regioregularly, which gave easy access to isotactic polymers by using optically pure epoxides.

The title compound was synthesised in a concise route (nine linear steps, 31% overall yield) employing an α-silyl epoxide ring opening, a Julia-Kocienski olefination and a late-stage Peterson elimination as key steps.