cyclohexene oxides was estab-lished and several syntheses of these interesting com-
pounds were reported. 7 The biogenesis of zeylena and other cyclohexene oxides has been
suggested to take place in higher organisms through the nucleophilic opening of arene
oxides 2 generated by the enzymatic oxygenation of benzyl benzoate as shown in eq 1,
Scheme I. 3 All known cyclohexene oxides can be derived by further manipulations of trans …