A highly diastereoselective organocatalytic synthesis of unique functionalised vinyl epoxides, displaying a Morita-Baylis-Hillman backbone, has been developed by means of an user friendly sulfonium ylide epoxidation of aldehydes from a readily available alpha-(bromomethyl)acrylamide derivative. The first result in the asymmetric version is discussed.
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