Tk. Chakraborty et S. Dutta, ANTI-MARKOVNIKOV OPENING OF TRISUBSTITUTED EPOXY ALCOHOLS - APPLICATION IN THE SYNTHESIS OF 2-METHYL-1,3-DIOLS, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (9), 1997, pp. 1257-1259
2-Methyl-1,3-diols are synthesized by regioselectively opening trisubs
tituted epoxides, prepared from 2-methylbut-2-en-1-ols at the more sub
stituted carbon using Cp2TiCl-cyclohexa-1,4-diene.