“…General procedure for the preparation of salen ligands 1 A-F (Scheme 1): K 2 CO 3 (0.5 mmol) in water (2 mL) was added to a solution of salicylaldehyde (0.5 mmol) and (1R,2R)-1,2-cyclohexanediammonium monotartrate (0.25 mmol) in ethanol (10 mL). The re- 134.8, 134.1, 134.0, 133.5, 133.4, 132.4, 132.1, 131.7, 130.0, 129.9, 129.7, 129.6, 128.5, 128.3, 118.4, 118.0, 117.1, 114.8, 71.0, 34.4, 32.5, 30.2, 29.4, 28.9 General procedure for the synthesis of the bifunctional metal complex catalysts: [16,[21][22][23] The metal salt ( 2 ; 0.1 mmol) and the ligand (0.1 mmol) were dissolved in methanol (6 mL) under argon. The reaction mixture was heated at reflux for 2 h. The solvent was evaporated to yield the metal complex.…”