Various glycidates were obtained in high yields via green oxidation of acrylates with aqueous solution of NaOCl in the presence of ammonium salts. The appropriate choice of ammonium salts fitting to the polarity of the substrates and the reaction under slightly basic conditions were essential for efficient reactions.Facile synthesis of epoxides with easily accessible reagents is a very important subject due to the high importance of epoxides both as intermediates 1,2 and reactive 3 materials. A typical method for preparing epoxides is oxidation of C=C double bond moieties. 3,4-16 However, only a few effort has been conducted for efficient oxidation of acrylates yielding epoxides bearing ester moieties (glycidates) in spite of their wide variety of the commercial products. Glycidates are interesting building blocks for various pharmaceutical and biologically active compounds. [5][6][7]9,17 Typical oxidants employed for this oxidation are NaOCl, 5-10 dimethyldioxirane, 11 t-BuOOH with BuLi, 12,13 and H 2 O 2 with hetero-polyacid 14 or Mn 15 catalysts and NaHCO 3 as the activator. 16 The yields attained by references 14 and 15 were quantitative, but the reagents used are not easily accessible. NaOCl is advantageous in price and accessibility. The oxidation without catalysts resulted in moderate yields, but a patent literature reported that use of methyltrioctylammonium chloride (Oct 3 MeNCl) as a phase transfer catalyst significantly improved the yields of the synthesis of n-butyl (BG) and ethyl glycidates from n-butyl (BA) and ethyl (EA) acrylates to 94 and 86%, respectively. 10 We presume that the ammonium salts probably exchange the anion with NaOCl to obtain OClin place of Cl -, and served as amphiphilic oxidation species. Although oxidation of other !,"-unsaturated esters such as crotonates was also reported, oxidation of other acrylates was not disclosed. This oxidation was conducted in the mixture of NaOCl aqueous solution and ethyl acetate, and took relatively long time (e.g., 4 hours of dropwise addition of NaOCl solution and additional 3 hours of Spectroscopic data of other novel compounds.n-Hexyl glycidate. 1 H NMR (CDCl 3 , 400 MHz, ! in ppm): 4.09 (t, 2H, J = 6.8 Hz, -COOCH 2 -), 3.52 (dd, 1H, J = 3.7 and 3.6 Hz, -CH-), 2.94 (dd, 1H, J = 3.6 and 6.0 Hz, -OCH 2 CHCOO-), 2.82 (dd, 1H, J = 3.6