ASAP’s – 2021 – Week 36-42

Metal-Catalyzed Metathesis of Fluorinated Alkenes: Still a Current Major Challenge
Augustin Nouaille, Jan Lorkowski, Xavier Pannecoucke, Marc Mauduit,* Thomas Poisson, and Samuel Couve-Bonnaire*
ACS Catal 2021 11 12307-12323

This review documents two decades of challenging research into the metathesis of fluorinated alkenes.

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Recent Advances in Transformations Involving Electron-Rich Alkenes: Functionalization, Cyclization, and Cross-Metathesis Reactions
Fei Zhou, Meng Li, Huanfeng Jiang, Wanqing Wu*
Adv Synth Catal 2021 ASAP

Section 4 of this review details successful ring-opening cross-metathesis reactions of electron-rich alkenes.

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

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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

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Overcoming the Low Driving Force in Forming Depolymerizable
Polymers through Monomer Isomerization
Hanlin Chen, Zhen Shi, Tze-Gang Hsu, and Junpeng Wang*
Angew Chem Int Ed 2021 ASAP

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Predictive catalysis in olefin metathesis with Ru-based catalysts with annulated C60 fullerenes in the N-heterocyclic carbenes
Juan Pablo Martínez, Miquel Solà, Albert Poater*
Chem Eur J 2021 ASAP

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Enantioselective Catalytic Crotylboration Based Syntheses of the C7-C18(20) Fragments of Polyketides Isolated from Streptomyces gramineus
Terézia Morávková, Eva Bednářová, Martin Kotora*
Helv Chim Acta 2021 ASAP

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Sequential Diimination, Staudinger [2 + 2] Ketene-Imine Cycloaddition, and Ring-Closing Metathesis (RCM) Reactions: In Route to Bis(4-spiro-fused-β-lactams)-Based Macrocycles
Osama M. Habib, Asaad S. Mohamed, Yehia A. Ibrahim, and Nouria A. Al-Awadi*
J Org Chem 2021 ASAP

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All-cis poly(p-phenylene vinylene)s with high molar masses and fast photoisomerization rates obtained through stereoretentive ring-opening metathesis polymerization of [2,2]paracyclophane dienes with various aryl substituents
Ting-Wei Hsu, Samuel J. Kempel, Quentin Michaudel*
J Polym Sci 2021 ASAP

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Investigating the Stress-Strain Behavior in Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization-Based Brush Elastomers
Kyle Cushman, Andrew Keith, Joji Tanaka, Sergei S. Sheiko,* and Wei You*
Macromolecules 2021 54 8365-8371

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Convergent Synthesis of Branched Metathesis Polymers with Enyne Reagents
Tianqi Zhang, Xuelin Sui, and Will R. Gutekunst*
Macromolecules 2021 54 8435-8442

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Azobenzene-containing Alternating and Random Metathesis Copolymers toward Gaining More Insight into Photoisomerization Properties
Wei Song, Xiaotian Qu, Yadi Li, Juan Li, Chengshuang Wang, and Liang Ding*
Macromolecules 2021 54 9185-9194

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Synthesis and characterization of a novel latent ring-opening metathesis polymerization catalyst
Ivan Sherstobitov, Stanislav Kiselev, Alex Lyapkov, Mekhman Yusubov*, Viktor Zhdankin*, Bao-YiYu, Francis Verpoort*
Tet Lett 2021 ASAP

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Stereoselective Total Synthesis of Obolactones and 7′,8′-Dihydroobolactones
Deepak Saini, Praveen Kumar and Rodney A. Fernandes*
New J Chem 2021 ASAP

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IMDAF approach to annelated 1,4:5,8-diepoxynaphthalenes and their metathesis reaction leading to novel scaffolds displaying an antiproliferative activity toward cancer cells
Elizaveta A. Kvyatkovskaya, Kseniya K. Borisova, Polina P. Epifanova, Aleksey A. Senin, Victor N. Khrustalev, Mikhail S. Grigoriev, Alexander S. Bunev, Rovshan E. Gasanov, Kirill B. Polyanskii, Fedor I. Zubkov*
New J Chem 2021 ASAP

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One-shot synthesis of star gradient copolymers with controllable graft density
Cuiping Hou, Chulu Zhou, and Jianhua Cheng*
Polym Chem 2021 12 2651

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Strained alkyne polymers capable of SPAAC via ring-opening metathesis polymerization
Rajeshwar Vasdev, Wilson Luo, Kyle Classen, Michael Anghel, Samantha Novoa, Mark S. Workentin*, and Joe. B. Gilroy*
Polym Chem 2021 12 5542-5547

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Gradient Copolymer Prepared from Alternating Ring-Opening Metathesis of Three Monomers
Francis O. Boadi and Nicole S. Sampson*
Polym Chem 2021 12 5613-5622

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Conversion of fatty acid methyl esters into dibasic esters by metathesis and their lubricant properties
Jean-Luc Dubois, Jean-Luc Couturier, Svajus Joseph Asadauskas,* Linas Labanauskas, Dalia Brazinskiene and Rolf Blaauw
RSC Adv 2021 11 31030

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Development of highly gas-permeable polymers by metathesis copolymerization of 1-(p-trimethylsilyl) phenyl-1-propyne with tert-butyl and silyl groupcontaining diphenylacetylenes
Yi Lin, Jianrong Dong, Toshikazu Sakaguchi* and Tamotsu Hashimoto
RSC Adv 2021 11 32419

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