Home – Home – Jornals – Chemistry for Sustainable Development 2008 number 6

Chemical aspects of epoxidation, ecological safety of the promising methods of processing renewable raw material - terpenes - are the main focuses of the present review. Various epoxidation systems are considered, first of all those allowing one to perform the catalytic epoxidation of terpenes; their promising character with respect to the introduction into industry is evaluated. The data published during the years 1988 to 2008 are included in the review. All the data are arranged in common tables for convenience of comparing different epoxidation systems and choosing optimal process conditions.