All Things Metathesis

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 50 through 2021 – Week 1

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Efficient Z-Selective Olefin-Acrylamide Cross-Metathesis Enabled by Sterically Demanding Cyclometalated Ruthenium Catalysts
Yan Xu, Jonathan J. Wong, Adrian E. Samkian, Jeong Hoon Ko, Shuming Chen, K. N. Houk,* and Robert H. Grubbs*
J Am Chem Soc 2020 ASAP

Ene-Yne Metathesis of Allylphosphonates and Allylphosphates: Synthesis of Phosphorus-Containing 1,3-Dienes
Laurence N. Rohde, Jr., Thérèse H. Wild, and Steven T. Diver*
J Org Chem 2020 ASAP

The Impact of Water on Ru-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis: Potent Deactivating Effects Even at Low Water Concentrations
Christian O. Blanco, Joshua Sims, Daniel L. Nascimento, Alexandre Y. Goudreault, Stephan N. Steinmann, Carine Michel,* and Deryn E. Fogg*
ACS Catal 2021 11 893-899

Latent, Yet Highly Active Photoswitchable Olefin Metathesis Precatalysts Bearing Cyclic Alkyl Amino Carbene (CAAC)/Phosphite Ligands
Or Eivgi, Anna Vaisman, and N. Gabriel Lemcoff*
ACS Catal 2021 11 703-709

Sequential two-fold Claisen Rearrangement, One-pot Ring Closing Metathesis and Cross-metathesis as a Route to Substituted Benzo[b]azepine-2-one, Benzo[b]azepine and Benzo[b]oxepine Derivatives
Shyamasankar Mandal, Jeet Banerjee, Sougata Maity and Shital K Chattopadhyay*
Helv Chem Acta 2020 ASAP

A Boron Difluoride Hydrazone (BODIHY) Polymer Exhibits Aggregation-Induced Emission
Daniela Cappello, Alexander E. R. Watson, and Joe B. Gilroy*
Macromol Rapid Commun 2020 ASAP

Selectively Depolymerizable Polyurethanes from Unsaturated Polyols Cleavable by Olefin Metathesis
Brad H. Jones,* Chad Staiger, Jackson Powers, Jeremy A. Herman, and Jessica Román-Kustas
Macromol Rapid Commun 2020 ASAP

A molecular endless (74) knot
David A. Leigh,* Jonathan J. Danon, Stephen D. P. Fielden, Jean-François Lemonnier, George F. S. Whitehead and Steffen L. Woltering
Nature Chem 2020 ASAP

Role of Substrate Substituents in Alkene Metathesis Mediated by a Ru Alkylidene Catalyst
Paola Tobón, Sara Gómez, Albeiro Restrepo,* and Francisco Núñez-Zarur*
Organometallics 2020 ASAP

Influence of the N–>Ru Coordinate Bond Length on the Activity of New Types of Hoveyda-Grubbs Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
Containing a Six-Membered Chelate Ring Possessing a Ruthenium-Nitrogen Bond
Pavel A. Kumandin, Alexandra S. Antonova, Kseniia A. Alekseeva, Eugeniya V. Nikitina, Roman A. Novikov, Kirill A. Vasilyev, Anna A. Sinelshchikova, Mikhail S. Grigoriev, Kirill B. Polyanskii,* and Fedor I. Zubkov*
Organometallics 2020 ASAP

Sequence-regulated vinyl polymers via iterative atom transfer radical additions and acyclic diene metathesis polymerization
Masato Miyajima, Kotaro Satoh, and Masami Kamigaito*
Polym Chem 2020 ASAP

Preparation and activity of ruthenium catalyst based on β-cyclodextrin for ring-opening metathesis polymerization
Daichi Yoshida, Garry Sinawang, Motofumi Osaki, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi,* Akira Harada,* Yoshinori Takashima*
Tet Lett 2020 ASAP

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ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 47-49

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4-Methyltetrahydropyran as a Convenient Alternative Solvent for Olefin Metathesis Reaction: Model Studies and Medicinal Chemistry Applications Tomasz Nienałtowski, Paweł Krzesiński, Marcel E. Baumert, Aleksandra Skoczeń, Ewa … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 40-46

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Light-Activated Olefin Metathesis: Catalyst Development, Synthesis, and Applications Or Eivgi, Ravindra S. Phatake, Noy B. Nechmad, and N. Gabriel Lemcoff* Acc Chem Res 2020 53 10 2456-2471 Two-Step Divergent Synthesis of Monodisperse … [Continue reading]

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 … [Continue reading]

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]