Chemical Society of Japan, Chemistry Letters, 9(33), p. 1140-1141, 2004
DOI: 10.1246/cl.2004.1140
Wiley-VCH Verlag, ChemInform, 5(36), 2005
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Magnetite iron oxide (Fe3O4) has been found to be an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for the epoxidation of alkenes by molecular oxygen in the absence of a sacrificial reductant among various transition metal oxides. The reaction probably proceeds via a radical mechanism.