As part of our work with Kagan's ether 1 we came to need an analogue of 1 which could be used to prepare a variety of ligands for the purpose of constructing chiral catalysts and/or large molecular architectures, such as molecular squares or other large ring systems. 1-3 We decided to pursue the synthesis of the simple dihydroxy compound 2. This report describes the synthesis of racemic and both enantiomerically enriched (R, R) and
[Kim, Myung Hee; Choi, Young Lok; Heo, Jung-Nyoung; Min, Yong Ki; Kim, Seong Hwan Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, 2010 , vol. 31, # 7 p. 2047 - 2050]
