As many of you bees might of gathered swim is kinda obsessed with phenylacetic and P2P routes.
Well my new couse of study is the conversion of styrene (easy to get) to phenylacetaldehyde via the intermediate styrene oxide.
On investigating the conversion of styrene to styrene oxide I have come up against epoxidation for the first time.
So diving into my text books I found, that peroxybenzoic acid is used for the conversion of styrene to styrene oxide. After seeing the word "Epoxide" I went straight over to Rhodiums site and I was bombarded with epoxations being used with safrol.
As a newbee to expoxation can anybees tell me what other reagents could possibly be used for making styrene oxide, as I am finding all this information a bit overwhelming ?
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