All Things Metathesis

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 35-39

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An RCM-Based Total Synthesis of the Antibiotic Disciformycin B
Philipp Waser and Karl-Heinz Altmann*
Angew Chem Int Ed 2020 ASAP

Efficient Synthesis of Geminal-Dialkyl Dienes for Olefin Metathesis Polymerization
William J. Wolf, Jiaming Li, Simon C. Jones, Brian M. Stoltz, and Robert H. Grubbs*
Macromolecules 2020 ASAP

Sterically Tuned N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands for the Efficient Formation of Hindered Products in Ru-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis
Sebastian Planer, Paweł Małecki, Bartosz Trzaskowski, Anna Kajetanowicz,* and Karol Grela*
ACS Catal 2020 10 11394?11404

Challenging Metathesis Catalysts with Nucleophiles and Brønsted Base: Examining the Stability of State-of-the-Art Ruthenium Carbene Catalysts to Attack by Amines
Daniel L. Nascimento, Immanuel Reim, Marco Foscato, Vidar R. Jensen and Deryn E. Fogg*
ACS Catal ASAP 2020

FhuA-Grubbs-Hoveyda Biohybrid Catalyst Embedded in a Polymer Film Enables Catalysis in Neat Substrates
Tayebeh Mirzaei Garakani, Daniel F. Sauer, M. A. Stephanie Mertens, Jaroslav Lazar, Julia Gehrmann, Marcus Arlt, Johannes Schiffels, Uwe Schnakenberg, Jun Okuda and Ulrich Schwaneberg*
ACS Catalysis ASAP 2020

Impact of Ethylene on Efficiency and Stereocontrol in Olefin Metathesis : When to Add It, When to Remove It, and When to Avoid It
Amir H. Hoveyda,* Zhenxing Liu, Can Qin, Tobias Koengeter,
and Yucheng Mu
Angew Chem Int Ed 2020 ASAP

This minireview discusses the increased selectivity and efficiency that can be imparted on various metathesis transformations by ethylene addition/removal.

Helicity Control of Polymeric Backbones with Alternating Cis–Trans Double Bonds in Cyclopolymerized Dipropargyl Amides
Youngjun Song, Sunyoung Kang, Sangyoon Kang and Yan Lee*
Angew Chem Int Ed 2020 ASAP

Selective ring-rearrangement or ring-closing metathesis of bicyclo[3.2.1]octenes
Evgeniya Semenova, Ouidad Lahtigui, Sarah K. Scott, Matthew Albritton, Khalil A. Abboud, Ion Ghiviriga, Adrian E. Roitberg, and Alexander J. Grenning*
Chem Commun 2020 ASAP

A Giant [8+12] Boronic Ester Cage with 48 Terminal Alkene Units in The Periphery for Postsynthetic Alkene Metathesis
Martin Hähsler and Michael Mastalerz*
Chem Eur J 2020 ASAP

Chemical synthesis of chitosan-mimetic polymers via ring-opening metathesis polymerization and their applications in Cu2+ adsorption and catalytic decomposition
Na Li, Xiaosai Qu, Lifeng Wang, Qingquan Tian, Yu Chen,* Xianping Yao, Shusen Chen, and Shaohua Jin
Polym Chem 2020 ASAP

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ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 33-34

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Nitro and Other Electron Withdrawing Group-Activated Ruthenium Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis Reaction Anna Kajetanowicz,* and Karol Grela* Angew Chem Int Ed 2020 ASAP This review details the development and diverse applications of electron … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 31-32

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It’s Better with Salt: Aqueous Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization at Neutral pH Jeffrey C. Foster,* Marcus C Grocott, Lucy A. Arkinstall, Spyridon Varlas, McKenna J. Redding, Scott M. Grayson,* and Rachel K. O'Reilly* J Am Chem Soc 2020 … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 29-30

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Synthesis of Biobased Long-Chain Polyesters by Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization and Tandem Hydrogenation and Depolymerization with Ethylene Kotohiro Nomura,* Permpoon Chaijaroen, and Mohamed Mehawed Abdellatif ACS Omega 2020 … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 27-28

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Aerogels for the separation of asphalt-containing oil–water mixtures and the effect of asphalt stabilizer Bin Lin, Zufei Wang, Qing-jun Zhu, Wafaa Nazurah Binti Hamzah, Zhen Yao* and Kun Cao* RSC Adv 2020 10 24840 Synthesis of … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 25-26

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Photoinduced strain-assisted synthesis of a stiff-stilbene polymer by ring-opening metathesis polymerization Baiju P. Krishnan, Lulu Xue, Xinhong Xiong, and Jiaxi Cui* Chem Eur J 2020 ASAP Facile synthetic route to [3.n]thiacyclophanes … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 23-24

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Supramolecular Behaviour and Fluorescence of Rhodamine-Functionalised ROMP Polymer Lee Birchall, Sara Shehata, Sean McCarthy, Helena J. Shepherd, Ewan Clark, Christopher Serpell,* Stefano Biagini* ChemRxiv 2020 ASAP The … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 21-22

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Protection of ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts by encapsulation in a self-assembled resorcinarene capsule Lukas J. Jongkind, Maryam Rahimi, David Poole III, Stephanie J. Ton, Deryn E. Fogg* and Joost N.H. Reek* ChemCatChem 2020 … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 19-20

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A Scalable Membrane Pervaporation Approach for Continuous Flow Olefin Metathesis Christopher P. Breen, Christine Parrish, Ning Shangguan, Sudip Majumdar, Hannah Murnen, Timothy F. Jamison,* and Matthew M. Bio* Org Process Res Dev 2020 … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 17-18

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Making the Family Portrait Complete: Synthesis of Electron Withdrawing Group Activated Hoveyda-Grubbs Catalysts Bearing Sulfone and Ketone Functionalities Michał Bieniek, Robert Bujok, Mariusz Milewski, Dieter Arlt, Anna Kajetanowicz, Karol … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 15-16

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Relay Cross Metathesis for the Iterative Construction of Terpenoids and Synthesis of a Diterpene-Benzoate Macrolide of Biogenetic Relevance to the Bromophycolides Karim A. Bahou, D. Christopher Braddock,* Adam G. Meyer, and G. Paul Savage Org Lett … [Continue reading]