| abstract |
Process for the preparation of phenyl-substituted epoxides of the formula in which R¹ and R² are hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, phenyl, halogen, nitro, alkoxy, haloalkyl, phenoxy or phenylsulfonyl, by reduction of a haloacetophenone to a halohydrin and reaction of the halohydrin with alkali hydroxide, the reduction with alkali borohydride and the reaction in aqueous -Organic solution or the ring closure of a halohydrin with alkali metal hydroxide are carried out in organic liquid. |