Convenient access to homochiral tricarbonyliron complexes
Abstract
Homochiral 6-methoxy substituted cyclohexadienyltricarbonyliron complexes have been obtained by complexation of the dimethyl ether of 1-methylcyclohexa-1,3-diene-5,6-diol (available via microbial oxidation of toluene) and demethoxylation with triphenylcarbenium tetrafluoroborate.