On the timing of hydrolysis / reoxidation in the osmium-catalyzed asymmetric dihydroxylation of olefins using potassium ferricyanide as the reoxidant

doi:10.1016/0040-4039(91)80601-2

Tetrahedron Letters

Volume 32, Issue 32, 5 August 1991, Pages 3965-3968

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Abstract

Hydrolysis is shown to precede reoxidation in the catalytic cycle for the asymmetric dihydroxylation of olefins using potassium ferricyanide as the stoichiometric reoxidant, thereby accounting for the observed absence of a non-enantioselective “second cycle.”

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On the timing of hydrolysis / reoxidation in the osmium-catalyzed asymmetric dihydroxylation of olefins using potassium ferricyanide as the reoxidant

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Tetrahedron Lett.

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