tert-Butyl hydroperoxide → HCID 20222591, compound

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44.5 g of a hydrocarbon mixture containing (according to GC) about 85.4% of 1,1,3,3,5-pentamethyl-4,7-dihydroindane (IIc) are dissolved in 200 ml of 1,2-dichloroethane and treated in accordance with method C described in Example 1 with 0.53 g of molybdenum hexacarbonyl, 0.2 g of disodium hydrogen phosphate and 140 ml of 2.85 molar tert.butyl hydroperoxide solution. After working-up and high vacuum distillation, there are obtained 23.6 g (corresponding to 57.2% yield based on IIc) of 5,6-epoxy-1,1,3,3,5-pentamethyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindane with the following data:

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