H. Sasaki et al., CATALYTIC ASYMMETRIC EPOXIDATION WITH (SALEN)MANGANESE(III) COMPLEX BEARING BINAPHTHYL GROUPS OF AXIAL CHIRALITY, Synlett, (4), 1993, pp. 300-302
Chiral (salen)manganese(III) complexes bean ng nap t yl groups of axia
l chirality were newly prepared and used for the asymmetric epoxidatio
n of unfunctionalized olefins as catalysts. Epoxidation of cis-olefins
was found to proceed with high enantioselectivity in the presence of
pyridine N-oxide, when complex 4a was used as a catalyst.