text: * Reduction of an epoxide  with lithium aluminium hydride or aluminium hydride  produces the corresponding alcohol. This reduction process results from the nucleophilic addition of hydride (H).
  * Reductive cleavage of epoxides gives β-lithioalkoxides.
  * Epoxides undergo ring expansion reactions, illustrated by the insertion of carbon dioxide to give cyclic carbonates.
  * When treated with thiourea, epoxides convert to the episulfide, which are called thiiranes.
  * An epoxide adjacent to an alcohol can undergo the Payne rearrangement in base.