All Things Metathesis

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 Functionally and Stereochemically Diverse Polymers via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Derivatives of the Biomass-Derived Platform Molecule Levoglucosenone Produced at Industrial Scale
Martin G. Banwell,* Xin Liu, Luke A. Connal, and Michael G. Gardiner
Macromolecules 2020 ASAP

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of the Naturally Occurring Antibiotic Anthracimycin
Emma K. Davison, Jared L. Freeman, Wanli Zhang, William M. Wuest, Daniel P. Furkert, and Margaret A. Brimble*
Org Lett 2020 ASAP

Stereoretentive Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization to Access All-cis Poly(p-phenylene vinylene)s with Living Characteristics
Ting-Wei Hsu, Cheoljae Kim, and Quentin Michaudel*
J Am Chem Soc 2020 ASAP

Polymer Chain Editing: Functionality “Knock-in”, “Knock-out” and Replacement via Cross Metathesis Reaction and Thiol-Michael Addition
Jie Ren, and Junpo He*
Polym Chem 2020 ASAP

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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]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 07-08

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Synthesis of high-molecular weight poly(1,1-dimethyl-1-silapentene) by olefin metathesis polymerization in the presence of Grubbs catalysts Alexander Morontsev, Maria Gringolts*, Valentin Lakhtin, Eugene Finkelshtein J Organomet Chem 2020 … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 05-06

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A Macrocyclic Ruthenium Carbene for Size-Selective Alkene Metathesis Yutong Zhang and Steven T. Diver* J Am Chem Soc 2020 ASAP Synthesis and Activity of Six-Membered Cyclic Alkyl Amino Carbene-Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis … [Continue reading]