Manato Kotozaki, Soda Chanthamath, Ikuhide Fujisawa, Kazutaka Shibatomi and Seiji Iwasa
Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 12193-12196
DOI:
10.1039/C7CC05951E,
Communication
A highly stereoselective cyclopropanation of various olefins with diazosulfones catalyzed by chiral Ru(II)–Pheox complexes was developed to give chiral cyclopropyl sulfones in high yields (up to 99%) with excellent trans-selectivity and enantioselectivity (up to 98% ee).