| Abstract
| - The replacement of organometallic rhenium species (e.g., CH3ReO3) by less expensive and morereadily available inorganic rhenium oxides (e.g., Re2O7, ReO3(OH), and ReO3) can be accomplishedusing bis(trimethylsilyl) peroxide (BTSP) as oxidant in place of aqueous H2O2. Using a catalyticamount of a proton source, controlled release of hydrogen peroxide helps preserve sensitiveperoxorhenium species and enables catalytic turnover to take place. Systematic investigation ofthe oxorhenium catalyst precursors, substrate scope, and effects of various additives on olefinepoxidation with BTSP are reported in this contribution.
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