All Things Metathesis

ASAP’s – 2018 – Week 46

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Living Metathesis and Metallotropy Polymerization Gives Conjugated Polyenynes from Multialkynes: How to Design Sequence-Specific Cascades for Polymers
Cheol Kang, Seongyeon Kwon, Jong-Chan Sung, Jinwoo Kim, Mu-Hyun Baik,* and Tae-Lim Choi*
J Am Chem Soc 2018 ASAP

Rapid Decomposition of Olefin Metathesis Catalysts by a Truncated N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC): Efficient Catalyst Quenching and NHC Vinylation
Stephanie A. Rufh, Alexandre Y. Goudreault, Marco Foscato, Vidar R. Jensen and Deryn E. Fogg*
ACS Catal 2018 ASAP

The Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers by Olefin Metathesis: Achievements and Challenges
Julian P. Edwards, William J. Wolf, Robert H. Grubbs*
J Poylm Sci A 2018 ASAP

A highlight focused on the synthesis of cyclic polymers paying particular attention to those made by REMP (ring expansion metathesis polymerization).

Synthesis of 8′,11′-dihydrospiro[cyclohexane-1,2′-oxepino[2,3-h] chromen]-4′(3′H)-ones with ring closing metathesis as a key step
Prathima K, Ashok D,* Sarasija M, Prabhakar Sripadi, Madhu Vemula, Venkata S. Komarraju, Biswajit Gorai and Shyam Prakash
RSC Adv 2018 8 38673

ASAP’s – 2018 – Week 45

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Synthesis and evaluation of Naphthalene-1,8-dithiolate chelating ruthenium carbene catalyst for Z-Stereoretentive olefin metathesis Tao Wang, Qingxiao Xie, Weijie Guo, Shutao Wu, Huiqing Zhang, Jianhui Wang* J Organometallic Chem 2018 … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2018 – Week 44

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Macromolecular Brushes by Combination of Ring-Opening and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization. Synthesis, Self-Assembly, Thermodynamics, and Dynamics Christiana Nikovia, Lazaros Theodoridis, Stelios Alexandris, Panayiotis Bilalis, Nikos … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2018 – Week 43

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Asymmetric Synthesis of an Advanced Tetracyclic Framework of (+)-Sarain A Yu Wang, Lingying Leng, Ying Liu, Guiying Dai, Fanglin Xue, Zhihao Chen, Jiao Meng, Guohua Wen, Yaxin Xiao, Xiao-Yu Liu, and Yong Qin* Org Lett 2018 … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2018 – Week 42

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An Alternative Stereoselective Synthesis Of Greensporone C Venkata Naresh Vema, Bharathi kumari, Y. Sridhar Musulla, RamaKrishnam Raju Addada, Srinivasa Rao Alapati* Tetrahedron Letters 2018 ASAP Stereoretentive Olefin Metathesis Made … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2018 – Week 41

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Total synthesis of JBIR-03 and asporyzin C Tetsuro Murokawa, Masaru Enomoto*, Takaaki Teranishi, Yusuke Ogura, Shigefumi Kuwahara* Tetrahedron Letters 2018 ASAP A Facile Synthesis of N-Boc-azocan-5-one Maricela Morales-Chamorro, Alfredo … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2018 – Week 40

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Metathesis: Around the Catalytic Cycle an interview with Jessica Gomes-Jelonek, Philip Wheeler, and Dick Pederson by Christophe Le Ret Efficient enantiospecific synthesis of ent-conduramine F-1 Kavirayani R. Prasad,* Vipin Ashok … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2018 – Week 39

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Design of a Selective RCEYM-Reduction for the Generation of Different Synthetic Scaffolds Denis N. Prada Gori, Caterina Permingeat Squizatto, Patricia G. Cornier and Carina M.L. Delpiccolo* J Org Chem 2018 ASAP Olefin Metathesis in Air … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2018 – Week 38

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A Six-Crossing [2]Catenane with Twisted Rings (a Molecular 623 Link), and a Molecular Granny Knot Jonathan J. Danon, David A. Leigh,* Simone Pisano, Alberto Valero and Iñigo J. Vitorica-Yrezabal Angew Chem Int Ed 2018 ASAP Ruthenium … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2018 – Week 37

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Efficient Conversion of Renewable Unsaturated Fatty Acid Methyl Esters by Cross-Metathesis with Eugenol Duy Le, Chanatip Samart, Ken Tsutsumi, Kotohiro Nomura,* and Suwadee Kongparakul* ACS Omega 2018 ASAP Molecular and kinetic design … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2018 – Weeks 35 & 36

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Relay Conjugation of Living Metathesis Polymers Liangbing Fu, Tianqi Zhang, Guanyao Fu and Will R. Gutekunst* J Am Chem Soc 2018 ASAP Enzyme-Responsive Polymer Nanoparticles via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization-Induced … [Continue reading]