The enantioselective addition of water to olefins in an aqueous environment is a common transformation in biological systems, but was beyond the ability of synthetic chemists. Here, we present the ...
Figure 1: The vicinal dichloride motif in natural products. Figure 3: Proposed catalytic cycle for the selenium-catalysed syn-dichlorination of alkenes. Kharasch, M. S. & Brown, H. C. Chlorinations ...