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Item Open Access Chiral ketone-catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation of cis-olefins(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Burke, Christopher Patrick, author; Shi, Yian, advisorEpoxides are invaluable intermediates in organic synthesis and are present in many biologically active compounds. As such, there is great interest in the synthesis of chiral non-racemic epoxides. One of the most convenient methods for their synthesis is the catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of olefins, and much work has been done in this area. Our group has been interested in epoxidation of unfunctionalized olefins using chiral dioxiranes generated from chiral ketones and Oxone or other oxidant.