Optically active terminal 1,2-diols are important chiral building blocks in organic synthesis with numerous applications as chiral auxiliaries or ligands for asymmetric synthesis. 1 Among the chemical methods known for their enantioselective synthesis, the asymmetric dihydroxylation of olefins or the reduction of α-hydroxy ketones protected as their silyl ethers in a CBS system 2 seems to be most common. However, these procedures suffer from inherent drawbacks. ...
