“…[10] The success of oxazoline ligands as stabilizing agents in catalysis as well as our ongoing interest in rhenium-catalyzed epoxidations [11][12][13][14][15] prompted us to investigate a largely unexplored oxazoline ligand in oxidorhenium(V) chemistry. We were surprised to find that 2-(hydroxymethyl)-2-oxazoline and derivatives thereof have, in general, limited used incoordinationchemistry.Thus,with(4,5-dihydrooxazol-2-yl)-methanol only a few Cr III , [16] Ni II , [17,18] Zr IV [19] and Hf IV [20] [a] Institute of Chemistry, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Schubertstrasse 1, 8010 Graz, Austria E-mail: nadia. 2 ].…”