A series of chiral salan (salalen) ligands, easily prepared from the aldehyde derived from chiral binaphthol, are effective ligands for the titanium-catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation of olefins with aqueous H2O2 as the oxidant. One of the titanium–salan complexes was determined by X-ray crystallography.
[Capriati, Vito; Dammacco, Mariangela; Florio, Saverio; Perna, Filippo M.; Salomone, Antonio Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements, 2011 , vol. 186, # 5 p. 1274 - 1277]
