The synthetic challenge of constructing arrays of contiguous, chlorinated stereogenic centres in natural products, like the chlorosulfolipids, has sparked recent interest in new methods for stereocontrolled chlorination. Now the first catalytic, syn-stereospecific dichlorination of alkenes, employing a redox-active main group element as a group transfer catalyst is described.
- Alexander J. Cresswell
- Stanley T.-C. Eey
- Scott E. Denmark
