Hydroxyamination

[clubcard]

Has anyone taken a good look at the work of Barry Sharpless. It's not a very general reaction, but if you want to convert an alkene in to a beta-aminoalcohol, it's really clever.

I'm thinking here of US Patent 4,921,059

 

[sekio]

you got a typo there dawg

also, the reaction uses osmium, a not exactly easily accessible element

also also, we don't allow synthesis discussion here