Theory rules out a [2 + 2] addition of osmium tetroxide to olefins as initial step of the dihydroxylation reaction

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 35, Issue 23-24, 1997, Pages 2817-2820

  Pidun, Ulrich ^a   Boehme, Christian ^a   Frenking, Gernot ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculations; Asymmetric dihydroxylation; Reaction mechanisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030515218     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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