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Oxygen and Osmium—A New Alliance for Dihydroxylations?
Author(s) -
Wirth Thomas
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(20000117)39:2<334::aid-anie334>3.0.co;2-5
Subject(s) - osmium , alliance , oxygen , scope (computer science) , selectivity , chemistry , catalysis , computer science , organic chemistry , history , archaeology , programming language , ruthenium
The activation of oxygen in new synthetic procedures dramatically expands the scope of osmium‐catalyzed dihydroxylations [Eq. (1)]. Even air can now be used as the cooxidant in the asymmetric version of this reaction with little loss of selectivity.