Asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes with osmium tetroxide: chiral N,N′-dialkyl-2,2′-bipyrrolidine complex

1 January 1989

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 10,p. 665-666
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39890000665

Abstract

Asymmetric osmylation of alkenes by using N,N′-dialkyl-2,2′-bipyrrolidines as the chiral ligands shows a high asymmetric induction and a marked dependence of the enantioselectivity on both the N-alkyl group and the reaction solvent.

Keywords

DIHYDROXYLATION
ALKENES
INDUCTION
ENANTIOSELECTIVITY
ALKYL
OSMYLATION
ASYMMETRIC
OSMIUM TETROXIDE