New Mono‐Quarternized Bis‐ Cinchona Alkaloid Ligands for Asymmetric Dihydroxylation of Olefins in Aqueous Medium: Unprecedented High Enantioselectivity and Recyclability

New mono‐quaternized allyl bromide salts of bis‐ Cinchona alkaloid ligands, [(QD) 2 PHAL‐Allyl]Br and [(QN) 2 PHAL‐Allyl]Br, have been synthesized which can be converted into their highly water‐soluble multihydroxylated derivatives under asymmetric dihydroxylation (AD) conditions and, thus, easily recovered by a simple extraction method after reaction and reused. These mono‐quaternized ligands exhibited superior catalytic efficiency to their neutral counterparts such as (DHQD) 2 PHAL and (DHQ) 2 PHAL for the AD reactions of mono‐ and disubstituted styrenes under Upjohn conditions. Merely 0.1 mol % of osmium was enough to complete the reactions of mono‐ and disubstituted styrenes and, moreover, these ligands showed the highest enantioselectivities (e.g., for styrene, 97 % ee with [(QD) 2 PHAL‐Allyl]Br) among those ever achieved under Upjohn conditions.