Terminal oxidations, methyltrioxorhenium

Hydrogen peroxide is a particularly attractive oxidant and holds a prominent position in the development of benign catalytic oxidation procedures. In recent years a number of highly versatile catalytic oxidation methods based on, for example, polyoxometalates [154], methyltrioxorhenium [155] or tungstate [4, 156] complexes in the presence of phase transfer catalysts, all using hydrogen peroxide as the terminal oxidant, have been introduced. Mn-catalyzed epoxidations, aldehyde... 

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