All Things Metathesis

ASAP’s – 2021 – Week 31-35

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Substituent Effects Provide Access to Tetrasubstituted Ring-Opening Olefin Metathesis of Bicyclo[4.2.0]oct-6-enes
Gyusaang Youn and Nicole S. Sampson*
ACS Org Inorg 2021 ASAP

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 Jgrgen O. Metzger
Angew Chem Int Ed 2021 60 20144-20165

Section 3.2.6 summarizes the past 10 years of unsaturated fatty compound metathesis (self-metathesis, ethenolysis, alkenolysis, and isomerizing metathesis).

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Mannolide C
Qiaoqiao Ao, Hai-Jun Zhang, Jinbin Zheng, Xiaoming Chen,* and Hongbin Zhai*
Angew Chem Int Ed 2021 ASAP

Metathesis Cascade-Triggered Depolymerization of Enyne Self-Immolative Polymers
Jingsong Yuan, Gavin J. Giardino, and Jia Niu*
Angew Chem Int Ed 2021 ASAP

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Shagenes A and B
Chihiro Tsukano*, Ryotaro Yagita, Takayoshi Heike, Tagwa A. Mohammed, Kazuya Nishibayashi, Kazuhiro Irie, and Yoshiji Takemoto*
Angew Chem Int Ed 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 12 7924

One-Pot Synthesis of Thiocarbamates
Kevin A. Waibel, Dennis Barther, Triantafillia Malliaridou, Dafni Moatsou, and Michael A. R. Meier*
Eur J Org Chem 2021 4508-4516

Calculations on the Ruthenium-Catalyzed Diene and Dienyne Ring-Closing Metathesis Reactions in the Synthesis of Taxol Derivatives
Samantha Brooks, Georgina Charlton, Aurélien Letort, Joëlle Prunet,* and Götz Bucher
J Org Chem 2021 ASAP

Water-Stable Thin-Film Nanostructures from Amphiphilic Cationic Bottlebrush Block Copolymers by Grafting-through Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Hathaithep Senkum, Peter V. Kelly, and William M. Gramlich*
Macromolecules 2021 ASAP


Investigating the effect of α-pinene on the ROMP of δ-pinene
Mark R. Yarolimek, Brianna M. Coia, Heather R. Bookbinder and Justin G. Kennemur*
Polym Chem 2021 ASAP

Highly photoluminescent poly(norbornene)s carrying platinum–acetylide complex moieties in their side chains: evaluation of oxygen sensing and TTA–UC
Taichi Sotani, Toshiko Mizokuro, Tatsuo Yajima, Hiromitsu Sogawa and Fumio Sanda*
Polym Chem 2021 ASAP

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ASAP’s – 2021 – Week 20-24

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Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of δ-Pinene: Well-Defined Polyolefins from Pine Sap Mark R. Yarolimek, Heather R. Bookbinder, Brianna M. Coia, and Justin G. Kennemur* ACS Macro Lett 2021 10 760-766 Nitro and Other Electron … [Continue reading]

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 … [Continue reading]

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]