All Things Metathesis

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 ASAP

Ruthenium Metathesis: A Key Step To Access a New Cyclic Tetrasubstituted Olefin Platform
Clément F. Heinrich, Didier Durand, Jérôme Starck,* and Véronique Michelet*
Org Lett 2020 ASAP

A Ring Closing Metathesis Approach to the Formal Synthesis of (+)-Callyspongiolide
Kwang-Yoon Ko, Zoe E. Wilson, Daniel P. Furkert* and Margaret A. Brimble*
ChemCatChem 2020 ASAP

Second-coordination sphere effects on reactivities of Hoveyda–Grubbs-type catalysts: A ligand exchange study using phenolic moiety-functionalized ligands
Catur Jatmika, Kenta Goshima, Kazumo Wakabayashi, Naoki Akiyama, Shun Hirota
and Takashi Matsuo*
Dalton Trans 2020 ASAP

Synthesis of seven membered oxacycles: Recent developments and new approaches
Victoria Sinka, Víctor S. Martín, Daniel A. Cruz*, and Juan I. Padrón*
Eur J Org Chem 2020 ASAP

Section 4 of this minireview details recent advances in the synthesis of seven-membered ring oxacycles via ring-closing metathesis.

Boosted molecular mobility during common chemical reactions
Huan Wang, Myeonggon Park, Ruoyu Dong, Junyoung Kim, Yoon-Kyoung Cho, Tsvi Tlusty,
Steve Granick*
Science 2020 369 537–541

This study details a significant increase in the mobility of reactants and nearby solvent (more rapid than Brownian diffusion) for ring-opening metathesis polymerization.

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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]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 13-14

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Syntheses of Complex Terpenes from Simple Polyprenyl Precursors Claire S. Harmange Magnani, Danny Q. Thach, Karl T. Haelsig, and Thomas J. Maimone* Acc Chem Res 2020 ASAP Total synthesis of prostratin, a bioactive tigliane diterpenoid: … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 09-12

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Stereoselective Synthesis of Conjugated Polyenes Based on Tethered Olefin Metathesis and Carbonyl Olefination: Application to the Total Synthesis of (+)-Bretonin B Kajsa Lood and Bernd Schmidt* J Org Chem 2020 ASAP A Relay Strategy … [Continue reading]