1. The carboxylation and epoxidation reactions are said to be coupled. 2. Second, the Sharpless epoxidation reacts with many primary and secondary allylic alcohols. 3. The efficient enantioselective catalytic epoxidation under mild conditions is of great synthetic utility. 4. Finally, the reactants for the Sharpless epoxidation are commercially available and relatively cheap. 5. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ( PAH ), for example, are genotoxic via epoxidation . 6. These are versatile oxidising agents and may be used for the epoxidation of olefins. 7. The reaction is most often employed for epoxidation via Synthesis of epoxides below ). 8. Chiral acyclic alkenes also show diastereoselectivity upon reactions such as epoxidation and enolate alkylation. 9. Titanium isopropoxide is used in the synthesis of chiral organic compounds via the Sharpless epoxidation . 10. The Sharpless epoxidation 's success is due to five major reasons by Martijn Patist.
