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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2015 Apr 27;54(24):7134–7138. doi: 10.1002/anie.201501505

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Tandem metathesis–dihydroxylation. Blechert and Snapper demonstrated that substrate controlled cross metathesis generally leads to syn-diols. We demonstrate that Z-selective catalysts lead to anti-diols in a catalyst controlled fashion via the Z-olefin.