Representative examples of organic solvents suitable for use in the epoxidation include linear and branched hydrocarbons such as pentane, hexane, heptane and octane and alkyl-substituted derivatives thereof, alicyclic hydrocarbons such as cyclopentane, cyclohexane and cycloheptane and alkyl-substituted derivatives thereof, aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzene, naphthalene, toluene and xylene and