A powerful alkylating agent, widely used in organic synthesis. Has been used for the methylenation of aldehydes and ketones to form epoxides1,2 and synthesis of some electron-rich aryl(hetaryl)oxiranes under phase-transfer and homogeneous conditions.3
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2. J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1999, 3333.
3. Russ. J. Org. Chem. 2008, 44, 1776.