All Things Metathesis

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 ASAP

Fast Oxygen Scavenging of Macroporous Poly(Norbornadiene) Prepared by Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Efthymia Vakalopoulou, Sergey M. Borisov, and Christian Slugovc*
Macromol Rapid Comm 2020 ASAP

Robust Olefin Metathesis Catalyst Bearing a Tridentate Hemilabile NHC Ligand
Joseph S Yoon, Nicolas Cena, and Yann Schrodi*
Organometallics 2020 ASAP

Strategic approaches to the synthesis of pyrrolizidine and indolizidine alkaloids
Nina K. Ratmanova,* Ivan A. Andreev,* Alexandre V. Leontiev, Daria Momotova, Anton M. Novoselov, Olga A. Ivanova, Igor V. Trushkov
Tetrahedron 2020 ASAP

Ruthenium-catalysed cyclisation reactions of 1,11-dien-6-ynes leading to biindenes
Takanori Matsuda* and Naoto Yonekubo
Org Biomol Chem 2020 ASAP

Towards Sarpagine-Ajmaline-Macroline Family Indole Alkaloids: Enantioselective Synthesis of N-Demethyl Alstolactone Diastereomer
Dylan Dagoneau, Qian Wang and Jieping Zhu*
Chem Eur J 2020 ASAP

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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]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 03-04

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A Chiron Approach to the Stereoselective Total Synthesis of Phomonol and Phytotoxic Nonenolides Naveen Chandra and Rodney A. Fernandes* Eur J Org Chem 2020 ASAP Optimized Ring Closing Metathesis Reaction Conditions to Suppress Desallyl … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 01-02

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Enol Ethers Are Effective Monomers for Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization: Synthesis of Degradable and Depolymerizable Poly(2,3-dihydrofuran) John D Feist, and Yan Xia* J Am Chem Soc 2020 ASAP Total Synthesis of (-)-Pepluanol B: … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2019 – Week 51-52

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A Fluorescence-Based High-Throughput Screening Method for Olefin Metathesis Using a Ratiometric Fluorescent Probe Hyeongju Noh, Taeho Lim, Byoung Yong Park, and Min Su Han* Org Lett 2019 ASAP Unprecedented Selectivity of Ruthenium Iodide … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2019 – Week 49-50

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Processable epoxy-telechelic polyalkenamers and polyolefins for photocurable elastomers Luke A. Kassekert, Claire E. Dingwell, Guilhem X. De Hoe and Marc A. Hillmyer* Polymer Chem 2019 ASAP Unintended Formation of a 26-Membered Cycle in … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2019 – Week 47-48

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Synthesis and in vitro biological evaluation of 3-amino-3-deoxydihydrosphingosines and their analogues Jana Špaková Raschmanová, Miroslava Martinková,* Jozef Gonda, Martina Bago Pilátová, Juraj … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2019 – Week 43-46

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A Gentler Touch: Synthesis of Modern Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Sustained by Mechanical Force Nirmalya Mukherjee, Anna Marczyk, Grzegorz Szczepaniak, Adrian Sytniczuk, Anna Kajetanowicz, and Karol Grela* ChemCatChem 2019 ASAP This … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2019 – Week 41-42

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Fluoro-imidazopyridinylidene Ruthenium Catalysts for Cross Metathesis with Ethylene Seunghwan Byun, Huiyeong Seo, Jun-Ho Choi, Ji Yeon Ryu, Junseong Lee, Won-jin Chung,* and Sukwon Hong* Organometallics 2019 ASAP Synthetic mimics of … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2019 – Week 39-40

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A Divergent Synthetic Route to the Vallesamidine, Strempeliopine and Schizozygine Alkaloids: Total Synthesis of (+)-Vallesamidine and (+)-14,15-Dehydrostrempeliopine Xiangyu Zhang and James. C. Anderson* Angew Chem Int Ed 2019 … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2019 – Week 37-38

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“Close-to-Release”: Spontaneous Bioorthogonal Uncaging Resulting from Ring-Closing Metathesis Valerio Sabatino, Johannes G. Rebelein, and Thomas R. Ward* J Am Chem Soc 2019 ASAP A Metathetic Approach to [5/5/6] Aza-Tricyclic Core of … [Continue reading]