A novel series of chiral tetradentate N(4) ligands together with their manganese complexes have been designed and synthesized. With 1 mol % manganese catalyst loading, the enantioselective epoxidation of olefins proceeds with nearly full conversion and enantiomeric excess values of up to 89 % for the first time.
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Wu et al. (2009) studied this question.