Dihydroxylation installs hydroxyl groups on adjacent alkene carbons. osmium tetroxide gives a syn addition pathway through a cyclic osmate ester.
A cyclic osmate ester contains the newly formed carbon–oxygen bonds of an osmium-mediated alkene dihydroxylation. Both oxygen atoms attach on the same face; hydrolytic cleavage of metal–oxygen bonds releases the diol.

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