Stereocontrolled Construction of Arrays of Stereogenic Centers
The Sharpless osmium-catalyzed asymmetric dihydroxylation is widely used. Lawrence Que, Jr. of the University of Minnesota designed(Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 1887DOI: 10.1002/anie.200705061)a catalyst with the inexpensive Fe that…