It has been demonstrated for the first time that a sulfide catalyst, utilised at 20 mol% loading, can promote methylene transfer to ketones in the presence of methyl triflate and an organic base. This metal-free methodology is of broad scope -both aliphatic and aromatic ketones (including trifluoromethyl ketones) can be converted to synthetically useful terminal epoxides in excellent yields at room temperature.Keywords: Corey-Chaykovsky reaction; epoxides; methylene transfer; organocatalysis; sulfides Epoxides are among the most valuable synthetic building blocks available to an organic chemist. Hence, the synthesis of these spring-loaded electrophiles in enantiomerically pure form is of great interest.[1] Although there are many distinguished protocols for the synthesis of optically active substituted/ functionalised epoxides, [2] there is a dearth of methods for the catalytic synthesis of the corresponding unfunctionalised terminal epoxides.The Corey-Chaykovsky (CC) reaction [3] is a timehonoured and efficient methodology for the synthesis of these compounds. Initially this reaction involved the use of stoichiometric loadings of preformed sulf(ox)onium salts (in the presence of base) as the alkyl-transfer agent, which is naturally undesirable from an atom-economy perspective.In a landmark series of studies, Furukawa, [4a] Aggarwal [4b-d,g-i,l,n] and others [4e,f,j,k,m] demonstrated that the (asymmetric) addition of semi-stabilised ylides to carbonyl compounds is possible using catalytic sulfide loadings. However, the corresponding asymmetric methylene transfer (i.e., via a chiral non-stabilised ylide) has been characterised by moderate yields/ enantioselectivities and a requirement for (super)stoichiometric sulfide loadings.[5] For instance, Aggarwals [5d] and Goodmans [5e] benchmark literature protocols for the asymmetric sulfonium ylide mediated methylene transfer to benzaldehyde (1) involve the use of 100-200 mol% of chiral sulfides 3-4 and produce 2 in ca. 50-60% yield and up to 57% ee (Scheme 1, A). It is also noteworthy that these protocols involved the use of a modified version of the classical CC reaction involving a metal-mediated Simmons-Smith type carbenoid transfer. [5e,6] We recently reported an operationally simple catalytic procedure for metal-free methylene transfer to Scheme 1. Protocols for chiral sulfide mediated terminal epoxidation.