All Things Metathesis

ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 41

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Synthesis and Evaluation of Sterically Demanding Ruthenium Dithiolate Catalysts for Stereoretentive Olefin Metathesis
T. Patrick Montgomery, Jessica M. Grandner, K. N. Houk, and Robert H. Grubbs*
Organometallics 2017 ASAP

Synthesis and Characterization of Functional Polyethylene with Regularly Distributed Thioester Pendants via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Shaofei Song, Zhen Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, Zhisheng Fu, Junting Xu, Zhiqiang Fan*
J Polym Sci A 2017 ASAP

Chiron approach for the total synthesis of (+)-synargentolide B
Jun Liu,* Yangguang Gao, Linlin Wang, Yuguo Du
Tetrahedron 2017 ASAP

Precision polymers containing main-chain-amino acids: ADMET polymerization and crystallization
Jan Freudenberg, Silvio Poppe and Wolfgang H. Binder*
RSC Adv. 2017 7 47507

ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 40

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Total Synthesis of Kanamienamide D. Prabhakar Reddy, Ning Zhang, Zhimei Yu, Zhen Wang, and Yun He* J Org Chem 2017 ASAP A 1,2-Dicarbadodecaborane(12)-1,2-Dithiolate Chelating Ruthenium Carbene Catalyst for Highly Z Selective Olefin … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 39

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Formal total synthesis of stigmatellin A J. S. Yadav,* G.Revathi, B. V. Subba Reddy Tetrahedron Letters 2017 58 3943-3946 Synthesis of Tricyclic Units of Indole Alkaloids: Application of Fischer Indolization and Olefin … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 37 & 38

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Mid-chain carboxylic acids by catalytic refining of microalgae oil Julia Zimmerer, Lara Williams, Dennis Pingen and Stefan Mecking* Green Chem 2017 ASAP Model studies for the preparation of Oxepanes and fused compounds via tandem 4+3 … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 36

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Synthesis of Amphiphilic Homopolymers and Their Self-Assembly into Acid-Responsive Polymeric Micelles Hyeongju Noh, Ho-Joong Kim,* Si Kyung Yang* J Polym Sci A 2017 ASAP Synthesis and One-Dimensional Assembly of Cylindrical Polymer … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 35

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Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Analogues of Phytohormones Strigolactones with Ring-Closing Metathesis as a Key Step Chiara Lombardi, Emma Artuso, Eleonora Grandi, Marco Lolli, Francesca Spyrakis, Emanuele Priola, and Cristina Prandi* Org … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 34

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Exploiting and Understanding the Selectivity in NHC-Based Ru Metathesis Catalysts for the Ethenolysis of Cyclic Olefins to α,ω-Dienes Pascal S. Engl, Celine B. Santiago, Christopher P. Gordon, Wei-Chih Liao, Alexey Fedorov,* Christophe … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 33

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Fifty years of (benz)oxaphospholene chemistry Jan K. E. T. Berton, Dr. Thomas S. A. Heugebaert, Prof. Dr. David Virieux, Prof. Dr. Christian V. Stevens* Chem Eur J 2017 ASAP Section 2.4 reviews the use of ring closing metathesis to prepare … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 32

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Iodine-mediated rearrangements of diallylsilanes Gregory W. O’Neil,* Elizabeth J. Cummins Tet Lett 2017 58 3406-3409 Total synthesis of greensporone C Kwanruthai Tadpetch,* Laksamee Jeanmard, Vatcharin Rukachaisirikul Tet Lett 2017 58 … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 31

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Design and Synthesis of Cyclic Mismatch-Binding Ligands (CMBLs) with Variable Linkers by Ring-Closing Metathesis and their Photophysical and DNA Repeat Binding Properties Sanjukta Mukherjee,* Chikara Dohno, Kazuhiko Nakatani* Chem Eur J 2017 … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 30

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New articles are always exciting and in an effort to bring more visibility to the community we’re experimenting with a recurring series of posts featuring the literary achievements of metathesis practitioners. As with all experiments, there are some … [Continue reading]