Metathesis and Decomposition of Fischer Carbenes of Cyclometalated Z-Selective Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts Tonia S. Ahmed, Jessica M. Grandner, Buck L. H. Taylor, Myles B. Herbert, K. N. Houk,* and Robert H. Grubbs* Organometallics 2018 ASAP

Merging metathesis and photochemical Csp3-H activation: Access to masked β-formyl hexanolides and their rearrangement to furofuranones Quentin Glenadel, Youssef Nassar, Ludovic Raffier, Sebastiaan Veys and Olivier Piva* Tetrahedron 2018 ASAP The Studies on the Synthesis of Endocyclic Enol Lactones via a RCM of Selected Vinyl Esters Anna Brodzka, Filip Borys, Dominik Koszelewski, and Ryszard Ostaszewski* […]

Sequential Alkene Isomerization and Ring-Closing Metathesis in Production of Macrocyclic Musks from Biomass Adrian Sytniczuk, Gwénaël Forcher, Douglas B. Grotjahn,* and Karol Grela* Chem Eur J 2018 ASAP At Long Last: Olefin Metathesis Macrocyclization at High Concentration Adrian Sytniczuk, Michał Dąbrowski, Łukasz Banach, Mateusz Urban, Sylwia Czarnocka-Śniadała, Mariusz Milewski, Anna Kajetanowicz, Karol Grela* J Am […]

Ring-Closing Metathesis in Pharmaceutical Development: Fundamentals, Applications and Future Directions Miao Yu*, Sha Lou*, and Francisco Gonzalez Bobes* Org Proc Res Dev 2018 ASAP Metathesis-Based Stapling of a Pyridine-Acetylene-Phenol Oligomers Having Alkenyl Side Chains after Intermolecular Templation by Native Saccharides Hajime Abe,* Chihiro Sato, Yuki Ohishi, and Masahiko Inouye* Eur J Org Chem 2018 ASAP […]

Total Synthesis of Carpatamides A-D Nagaraju Madala, Venkata Rao Ghanta, Srilalitha Vinnakota, Narender Mendu, Arun B. Ingle, Krishna Ethiraj, Vishal Sharma* Tetrahedron Letters 2018 ASAP Sharma Ring-opening metathesis polymerization of tertiary amide monomers derived from a bio-based oxanorbornene Stefan B. Lawrenson, Sam Hart, Ian. D. V. Ingram, Michael North,* Rachel R. Parker and Adrian C. […]

Carboxyl Graphene as a Superior Support for Bulky Ruthenium-Based Olefin Metathesis Catalyst Katarzyna Kaczanowska,* Michał Chwalba, Jakub Pastva, Martin Kubů, Anna Ruszczyńska, Ewa Bulska, Hynek Balcar, and Krzysztof Skowerski* Organometallics 2018 ASAP Toward Perfect Regiocontrol for β-Selective Cyclopolymerization Using a Ru-Based Olefin Metathesis Catalyst Kijung Jung, Kunsoon Kim, Jong-Chan Sung, Tonia S. Ahmed, Soon Hyeok […]

Synthesis of Various Heterocycles Having a Dienamide Moiety by Ring-Closing Metathesis of Ene-ynamides Hideaki Wakamatsu*, Yoshimi Sasaki, Masatoshi Kawahata, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Yuichi Yoshimura* Synthesis 2018 ASAP Reusable N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complex Catalysts and Beyond: A Perspective on Recycling Strategies Wenlong Wang, Lifeng Cui, Peng Sun, Lijun Shi, Chengtao Yue, and Fuwei Li* Chem Rev 2018 ASAP […]

Total Synthesis of Laingolide B Stereoisomers and Assignment of Absolute Configuration Chengsen Cui and Wei-Min Dai* Org Lett 2018 ASAP Recent metal-catalysed approaches for the synthesis of cyclopenta[b]indoles Thavaraj Vivekanand, Bishnupada Satpathi, Siddheshwar K. Bankar and S. S. V. Ramasastry* RSC Adv 2018 8 18576-18588 Efficient and Facile End Group Control of Living Ring-Opening Metathesis […]

Alternating Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (AROMP) of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Monomers Provides Oligomers with Side-Chain Sequence Control Guofang Li and Nicole S. Sampson* Macromolecules 2018 ASAP Multicyclic Polymer Synthesis through Controlled/Living Cyclopolymerization of α,ω-Dinorbornenyl-Functionalized Macromonomers Takuya Isono,* Tetsuya Sasamori, Kohei Honda, Yoshinobu Mato, Takuya Yamamoto, Kenji Tajima, and Toshifumi Satoh* Macromolecules 2018 ASAP Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane […]

Three Fold Intramolecular Ring Closing Alkene Metatheses of Square Planar Complexes with cis Phosphorus Donor Ligands P(X(CH2)mCH=CH2)3 (X/m = -/5-10, 0/3-5); Syntheses, Structures, and Thermal Properties of Macrocyclic Dibridgehead Diphosphorus Complexes Hemant Joshi, Sugam Kharel, Andreas Ehnbom, Katrin Skopek, Gisela D. Hess, Tobias Fiedler, Frank Hampel, Nattamai Bhuvanesh, and John A. Gladysz* J Am Chem […]

Recent advances in ruthenium-based olefin metathesis O. M. Ogba, N. C. Warner, D. J. O’Leary* and R. H. Grubbs* Chem Soc Rev 2018 ASAP Recent mechanistic investigations are discussed followed by a summary of selected applications. Living Light-Induced Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly for Rapid Preparation of Semiconducting Nanofibers Suyong Shin, Florian Menk, Youngjin Kim, Jeewoo Lim, Kookheon […]