Sodium Chlorite
Recent Literature
Sodium chlorite is an efficient stoichiometric oxidant in Sharpless
asymmetric dihydroxylation. The conversion of styrene was achieved twice as fast
as in the established Sharpless K3[Fe(CN)6]
dihydroxylation. Eight olefins were dihydroxylated to corresponding vicinal
diols with yields and ees as good as those reported in the literature for other
similar processes.
M. H. Junttila, O. E. O. Hormi, J. Org. Chem., 2004, 69,
4816-4820.
