Competition between catalytic epoxidation and oxidative cleavage of trans-stilbene by ruthenium complexes associated with bidentate ligands

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(95)01873-G

Bidentate ligands featuring two different nitrogen heterocycles (pyridine, oxazoline, oxazolidine and thiophene) directly linked together or separated by a spacer, have been prepared and used as ruthenium ligands to epoxidize trans-stilbene and to study t