Huston Locht

Introduction Epoxides serve as useful intermediates for a variety of important materials.[1] The desired product from epoxide ring-opening reactions often depends on the application; as one example, the terminal ethers and terminal alcohols produced from epoxide ring-opening with alcohol nucleophiles serve as useful building blocks for antifreeze and polyurethanes, respectively.[2, 3] While industrial processes have established effective strategies for developing certain desired...