Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Yasuhiro Kawanami

K Barry Sharpless

Brent K Blackburn

Lisa Wang

Hoi-Lun Kwong

Tomoyuki Shibata

Tatsuzo Ukita

Yasukazu Ogino

Matthias Beller

Osmium-catalyzed methods of addition to an olefin are discussed. In the method of asymmetric dihydroxylation of the present invention, an olefin, a chiral ligand, an organic solvent, water, an oxidant and an osmium-containing compound are combined. In the method of asymmetric oxyamination of the present invention, an olefin, a chiral ligand, an organic solvent, water, a metallochloramine derivative, an osmium-containing compound and, optionally, a tetraalkyl ammonium compound are combined. In the method of asymmetric diamination of the present invention, an olefin, a chiral ligand, an organic solvent, a metallo-chloramine derivative, an amine and an osmium-containing compound are combined. In one embodiment, an olefin, a chiral ligand which is a polymeric dihydroquinidine derivative or a dihydroquinine derivative, acetone, water, a base, an oxidant and osmium tetroxide are combined to effect asymmetric dihydroxylation of the olefin.

Method for catalytic asymmetric dihydroxylation of olefins using

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Kagawa, Japan

Yasuhiro Kawanami