Abstract
A novel manganese catalyst bearing an l-proline-derived N4 ligand has been developed for enabling acid-free asymmetric epoxidation of olefins with tert-butyl hydroperoxide as the oxidant. A variety of olefins that are well-matched in size with the ligand pocket can be transformed to epoxides with excellent enantioselectivities. The smaller ligand pocket is also beneficial to the enantioselective epoxidation of simple olefins. Cryospray ionization mass spectrometry experiments reveal that a MnIV[double bond, length as m-dash]O species serves as an active epoxidizing species.
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