ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 31-32

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 ASAP

Ruthenium Metathesis: A Key Step To Access a New Cyclic Tetrasubstituted Olefin Platform
Clément F. Heinrich, Didier Durand, Jérôme Starck,* and Véronique Michelet*
Org Lett 2020 ASAP

A Ring Closing Metathesis Approach to the Formal Synthesis of (+)-Callyspongiolide
Kwang-Yoon Ko, Zoe E. Wilson, Daniel P. Furkert* and Margaret A. Brimble*
ChemCatChem 2020 ASAP

Second-coordination sphere effects on reactivities of Hoveyda–Grubbs-type catalysts: A ligand exchange study using phenolic moiety-functionalized ligands
Catur Jatmika, Kenta Goshima, Kazumo Wakabayashi, Naoki Akiyama, Shun Hirota
and Takashi Matsuo*
Dalton Trans 2020 ASAP

Synthesis of seven membered oxacycles: Recent developments and new approaches
Victoria Sinka, Víctor S. Martín, Daniel A. Cruz*, and Juan I. Padrón*
Eur J Org Chem 2020 ASAP

Section 4 of this minireview details recent advances in the synthesis of seven-membered ring oxacycles via ring-closing metathesis.

Boosted molecular mobility during common chemical reactions
Huan Wang, Myeonggon Park, Ruoyu Dong, Junyoung Kim, Yoon-Kyoung Cho, Tsvi Tlusty,
Steve Granick*
Science 2020 369 537–541

This study details a significant increase in the mobility of reactants and nearby solvent (more rapid than Brownian diffusion) for ring-opening metathesis polymerization.

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