All Things Metathesis

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 and Ultra-Long Bottlebrush Polymers from an Easily Purifiable ROMP Monomer
Yoshihiro Yamauchi,* Noriko Nishizawa Horimoto, Kuniyo Yamada, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Masayuki Takeuchi, and Yasuhiro Ishida*
Angew Chem Int Ed 2020 ASAP

Confined Ru-catalysts in a two phase heptane/ionic liquid solution: modeling aspects
Takeshi Kobayashi,* Hamzeh Kraus, Niels Hansen, and Maria Fyta
ChemCatChem 2020 ASAP

Design and Synthesis of Cage Molecules as High Energy Density Materials for Aerospace Applications
Sambasivarao Kotha,* Subba Rao Cheekatla and Milind Meshram
ChemCatChem 2020 ASAP

Cross metathesis with acrylates: NHC vs CAAC-based ruthenium catalysts, an unanticipated influence of the carbene type on efficiency and selectivity of the reaction
Dr. Katarzyna Kaczanowska, Dr. Bartosz Trzaskowski, Aleksandra Peszczyńska, Andrzej Tracz, Dr. Rafał Gawin, Dr. Tomasz K. Olszewski* and Krzysztof Skowerski*
ChemCatChem 2020 ASAP

Olefin ring-closing metathesis under spatial confinement: Morphology–transport relationships
Ulrich Tallarek,* Janika Hochstrasser, Felix Ziegler, Xiaohui Huang, Christian Kübel, and Michael R. Buchmeiser
ChemCatChem 2020 ASAP

Chemoselective arylation of dialkyl diselenides and its application to synthesis of a N,N,N-trimethyllysine derivative
Ryuhei Takahashi, Kenta Sakamoto, Naoki Umezawa, Takashi Umehara, and Jun-ichi Matsuo*
Eur J Org Chem 2020 ASAP

8-Prenylflavanones via Microwave Promoted Tandem Claisen Rearrangement/6-endo-trig Cyclization and Cross Metathesis
Christiane Schultze, Stefan Foß and Bernd Schmidt*
Eur J Org Chem 2020 ASAP

Spectroscopic characterisation of Grubbs 2nd generation catalyst and its p-cresol
derivatives
M. R. Swart, Barend C. B. Bezuidenhoudt, C. Marais, E. Erasmus*
Inorg Chimica Acta 2020 ASAP

Multifactor Control of Vinyl Monomer Sequence, Molecular Weight, and Tacticity via Iterative Radical Additions and Olefin Metathesis Reactions
Masato Miyajima, Kotaro Satoh, Takahiro Horibe, Kazuaki Ishihara, and Masami Kamigaito*
J Am Chem Soc 2020 ASAP

Optically Pure C1-Symmetric Cyclic(alkyl)(amino)carbene Ruthenium Complexes for Asymmetric Olefin Metathesis
Jennifer Morvan, François Vermersch, Ziyun Zhang, Laura Falivene, Thomas Vives, Vincent Dorcet, Thierry Roisnel, Christophe Crévisy, Luigi Cavallo, Nicolas Vanthuyne, Guy Bertrand,* Rodolphe Jazzar,* and Marc Mauduit*
J Am Chem Soc 2020 ASAP

Surface-Initiated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization: A Method for Synthesizing Polymer-Functionalized Nanoparticles Exhibiting Semicrystalline Properties and Diverse Macromolecular Architectures
Jacob A. LaNasa and Robert J. Hickey*
Macromolecules 2020 ASAP

Cross-Linking Agents for Enhanced Performance of Thermosets Prepared via Frontal Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Douglas G. Ivanoff, Jaeuk Sung, Sydney M. Butikofer, Jeffrey S. Moore, and Nancy R. Sottos*
Macromolecules 2020 ASAP

Percolated Ionic Aggregate Morphologies and Decoupled Ion Transport in Precise Sulfonated Polymers Synthesized by Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Benjamin A. Paren, Bryce A. Thurston, William J. Neary, Aaron Kendrick, Justin G. Kennemur, Mark J. Stevens, Amalie L. Frischknecht,* and Karen I. Winey*
Macromolecules 2020 ASAP

Photochemical methods in metathesis reactions
Freya M. Harvey and Christian G. Bochet*
Org Biomol Chem 2020 ASAP

σ/π Plasticity of NHCs on the Ruthenium-Phosphine and Ruthenium=Ylidene Bonds in Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
Luis Miguel Azofra,* Sai V. C. Vummaleti, Ziyun Zhang, Albert Poater,* and Luigi Cavallo*
Organometallics 2020 ASAP

Facile synthesis of norbornene–ethylene–vinyl acetate/vinyl alcohol multiblock copolymers by the olefin cross-metathesis of polynorbornene with poly(5-acetoxy-1-octenylene)
Yulia I. Denisova, Alexey V. Roenko, Olga A. Adzhieva, Maria L. Gringolts, Georgiy A. Shandryuk, Alexander S. Peregudov, Eugene Sh. Finkelshtein and Yaroslav V. Kudryavtsev*
Polym Chem 2020 ASAP

Synthesis of Catenanes from a BMP32C10-Based Cryptand Tuned by the Linkage Length of Paraquat Salts
Feng-Zhi Yan, Yuan-Guang Shao, Zibin Zhang, Yan-Feng Shen, Xue-Chun Huang, Pei-Ling Zhang, Shijun Li*
Synthesis 2020 ASAP

Recent Advances in One-Pot Enyne Metathesis Processes for the Preparation of Biologically and Medicinally Relevant Compounds
Eric Bernardi, Lino Colombo, Massimo Serra*
Synthesis 2020 ASAP

Annulated oxa-cage frameworks via Claisen rearrangement and ring-closing metathesis
Sambasivarao Kotha* Subba Rao Cheekatla and Usha Nandan Chaurasia
Tetrahedron 2020 ASAP

Building blocks from monosaccharides for synthesis of scaffolds, including macrocycles. Application of allylic azide rearrangement, azide-alkyne cycloaddition and ring closing metathesis
Karen Fox, Rekha Chadda, Francisco Cardona, Stephen Barron, Patrick McArdle, Paul V. Murphy*
Tetrahedron 2020 ASAP

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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]

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]