Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.129, No.12, 3484-3484, 2007
Titanocene-catalyzed regiodivergent epoxide openings
The first regiodivergent opening of unbiased epoxides providing the ring-opened products in high enantiomeric excess from racemic and exceptionally high enantiomeric excess from enantioenriched substrates in a double asymmetric process has been devised. It constitutes a more general case of the very important enantioselective openings of meso-epoxides.