ChemInform Abstract: Reinvestigation of a Catalytic, Enantioselective Alkene Dibromination and Chlorohydroxylation.

Thorough reinvestigation of the title reactions reveals that in contrast to previously published results the reactions do not deliver the products in very high yields and with high to very high enantiomeric excesses, but in often significantly lower yields and with no enantioselectivity at all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]