All Things Metathesis

ASAP’s – 2021 – Week 17-19

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Engineering a Metathesis-Catalyzing Artificial Metalloenzyme Based on HaloTag
Sandro Fischer, Thomas R. Ward,* and Alexandria D. Liang*
ACS Catal 2021 11 6343-6347

Fatty Acids and their Derivatives as Renewable Platform Molecules for the Chemical Industry
Ursula Biermann, Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Ivo Feussner, Michael A. R. Meier,* and Jürgen O. Metzger
Angew Chem Int Ed 2021 ASAP

Section 3.2.6 of this review details the advances in vegetable/animal fat and oil metathesis over the past decade.

DNA–polymer conjugates via the graft-through polymerisation of native DNA in water
Lucy A. Arkinstall, Jonathan T. Husband, Thomas R. Wilks, Jeffrey C. Foster* and Rachel K. O’Reilly*
Chem Commun 2021 ASAP

Acrylic boronate: A multifunctional C3 building block for catalytic synthesis of rare organoborons and chemoselective heterobifunctional ligations
Shengjia Lin, Lucia Wang and Abhishek Sharma*
Chem Sci 2021 ASAP

Continuous Flow Z-stereoselective Olefin Metathesis: Development and
Applications in the Synthesis of Pheromones and Macrocyclic Odorant Molecules
Jennifer Morvan, Tom McBride, Idriss Curbet, Sophie Colombel-Rouen, Thierry Roisnel, Christophe Crévisy, Duncan L. Browne, Marc Mauduit*
ChemRxiv 2021 ASAP

A Cyclic Ruthenium Benzylidene Initiator Platform Enhances Reactivity for Ring-Expansion Metathesis Polymerization
Teng-Wei Wang, Pin-Ruei Huang, Jayme L. Chow, Werner Kaminsky, and Matthew R. Golder*
J Am Chem Soc 2021 ASAP

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ASAP’s – 2021 – Week 15-16

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Total Synthesis of Haliclonin A Yuan Jin, Kensuke Orihara, Fumiki Kawagishi, Tatsuya Toma, Tohru Fukuyama, and Satoshi Yokoshima* Angew Chem Int Ed 2021 60 9666–9671 Light-Driven gem-Hydrogenation: An Orthogonal Entry into “Second … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2021 – Week 08-14

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Fatty Acids and their Derivatives as Renewable Platform Molecules for the Chemical Industry Ursula Biermann, Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Ivo Feussner, Michael A. R. Meier,* Jürgen O. Metzger Angew Chem Int Ed 2021 ASAP Section 3.2.6 of this review … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2021 – Week 02-07

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Cyclic(Alkyl)(amino)carbenes (CAACs) in Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Jennifer Morvan, Marc Mauduit,* Guy Bertrand,* and Rodolphe Jazzar* ACS Catal 2021 11 1714-1748 Recent Developments in Z-Selective Olefin Metathesis Reactions by … [Continue reading]

ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 47-49

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4-Methyltetrahydropyran as a Convenient Alternative Solvent for Olefin Metathesis Reaction: Model Studies and Medicinal Chemistry Applications Tomasz Nienałtowski, Paweł Krzesiński, Marcel E. Baumert, Aleksandra Skoczeń, Ewa … [Continue reading]

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 … [Continue reading]

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]