ASAP’s – 2020 – Week 35-39

An RCM-Based Total Synthesis of the Antibiotic Disciformycin B
Philipp Waser and Karl-Heinz Altmann*
Angew Chem Int Ed 2020 ASAP

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Efficient Synthesis of Geminal-Dialkyl Dienes for Olefin Metathesis Polymerization
William J. Wolf, Jiaming Li, Simon C. Jones, Brian M. Stoltz, and Robert H. Grubbs*
Macromolecules 2020 ASAP

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Sterically Tuned N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands for the Efficient Formation of Hindered Products in Ru-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis
Sebastian Planer, Paweł Małecki, Bartosz Trzaskowski, Anna Kajetanowicz,* and Karol Grela*
ACS Catal 2020 10 11394?11404

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Challenging Metathesis Catalysts with Nucleophiles and Brønsted Base: Examining the Stability of State-of-the-Art Ruthenium Carbene Catalysts to Attack by Amines
Daniel L. Nascimento, Immanuel Reim, Marco Foscato, Vidar R. Jensen and Deryn E. Fogg*
ACS Catal ASAP 2020

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FhuA-Grubbs-Hoveyda Biohybrid Catalyst Embedded in a Polymer Film Enables Catalysis in Neat Substrates
Tayebeh Mirzaei Garakani, Daniel F. Sauer, M. A. Stephanie Mertens, Jaroslav Lazar, Julia Gehrmann, Marcus Arlt, Johannes Schiffels, Uwe Schnakenberg, Jun Okuda and Ulrich Schwaneberg*
ACS Catalysis ASAP 2020

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Impact of Ethylene on Efficiency and Stereocontrol in Olefin Metathesis : When to Add It, When to Remove It, and When to Avoid It
Amir H. Hoveyda,* Zhenxing Liu, Can Qin, Tobias Koengeter,
and Yucheng Mu
Angew Chem Int Ed 2020 ASAP

This minireview discusses the increased selectivity and efficiency that can be imparted on various metathesis transformations by ethylene addition/removal.

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Helicity Control of Polymeric Backbones with Alternating Cis–Trans Double Bonds in Cyclopolymerized Dipropargyl Amides
Youngjun Song, Sunyoung Kang, Sangyoon Kang and Yan Lee*
Angew Chem Int Ed 2020 ASAP

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Selective ring-rearrangement or ring-closing metathesis of bicyclo[3.2.1]octenes
Evgeniya Semenova, Ouidad Lahtigui, Sarah K. Scott, Matthew Albritton, Khalil A. Abboud, Ion Ghiviriga, Adrian E. Roitberg, and Alexander J. Grenning*
Chem Commun 2020 ASAP

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A Giant [8+12] Boronic Ester Cage with 48 Terminal Alkene Units in The Periphery for Postsynthetic Alkene Metathesis
Martin Hähsler and Michael Mastalerz*
Chem Eur J 2020 ASAP

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Chemical synthesis of chitosan-mimetic polymers via ring-opening metathesis polymerization and their applications in Cu2+ adsorption and catalytic decomposition
Na Li, Xiaosai Qu, Lifeng Wang, Qingquan Tian, Yu Chen,* Xianping Yao, Shusen Chen, and Shaohua Jin
Polym Chem 2020 ASAP

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