Efficient Z-Selective Olefin-Acrylamide Cross-Metathesis Enabled by Sterically Demanding Cyclometalated Ruthenium Catalysts Yan Xu, Jonathan J. Wong, Adrian E. Samkian, Jeong Hoon Ko, Shuming Chen, K. N. Houk,* and Robert H. Grubbs* J Am Chem Soc 2020 ASAP Ene-Yne Metathesis of Allylphosphonates and Allylphosphates: Synthesis of Phosphorus-Containing 1,3-Dienes Laurence N. Rohde, Jr., Thérèse H. Wild, and […]

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 Suska-Kauf, Jolanta Pawłowska, Anna Kajetanowicz,* and Karol Grela* ACS Sus Chem 2020 ASAP Sugar-Based Polymers from D-xylose: Living Cascade Polymerization, Tunable Degradation, and Small Molecule Release Antonio Rizzo, Gregory […]

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 and Ultra-Long Bottlebrush Polymers from an Easily Purifiable ROMP Monomer Yoshihiro Yamauchi,* Noriko Nishizawa Horimoto, Kuniyo Yamada, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Masayuki Takeuchi, and Yasuhiro […]

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 Li, Simon C. Jones, Brian M. Stoltz, and Robert H. Grubbs* Macromolecules 2020 ASAP Sterically Tuned N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands for the Efficient […]

Nitro and Other Electron Withdrawing Group-Activated Ruthenium Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis Reaction Anna Kajetanowicz,* and Karol Grela* Angew Chem Int Ed 2020 ASAP This review details the development and diverse applications of electron withdrawing group activated Hoveyda-Grubbs type catalysts. Multigram synthesis of heterabicyclo[n.1.0]alkan-1-yl trifluoroborates Ihor Kleban, Yevhen Krokhmaliuk, Sofiia Reut, Serhii Shuvakin, Vyacheslav V. Pendyukh, […]

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 […]

Synthesis of Biobased Long-Chain Polyesters by Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization and Tandem Hydrogenation and Depolymerization with Ethylene Kotohiro Nomura,* Permpoon Chaijaroen, and Mohamed Mehawed Abdellatif ACS Omega 2020 ASAP C-C Bond Cleavages of Cyclopropenes: Operating for Selective Ring-Opening Reactions Rubén Vicente* Chem Rev 2020 ASAP Section 4 of this great review on carbon-carbon bond cleavages […]

Aerogels for the separation of asphalt-containing oil–water mixtures and the effect of asphalt stabilizer Bin Lin, Zufei Wang, Qing-jun Zhu, Wafaa Nazurah Binti Hamzah, Zhen Yao* and Kun Cao* RSC Adv 2020 10 24840 Synthesis of Functionally and Stereochemically Diverse Polymers via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Derivatives of the Biomass-Derived Platform Molecule Levoglucosenone Produced at […]

Photoinduced strain-assisted synthesis of a stiff-stilbene polymer by ring-opening metathesis polymerization Baiju P. Krishnan, Lulu Xue, Xinhong Xiong, and Jiaxi Cui* Chem Eur J 2020 ASAP Facile synthetic route to [3.n]thiacyclophanes via ring-closing metathesis and their structural studies Sambasivarao Kotha*, Naveen Kumar Gupta and Saima Ansari Eur J Org Chem 2020 ASAP Preparation of Functionalized […]

Supramolecular Behaviour and Fluorescence of Rhodamine-Functionalised ROMP Polymer Lee Birchall, Sara Shehata, Sean McCarthy, Helena J. Shepherd, Ewan Clark, Christopher Serpell,* Stefano Biagini* ChemRxiv 2020 ASAP The Ruthenium-Catalyzed Domino Cross Enyne Metathesis/Ring-Closing Metathesis in the Synthesis of Enantioenriched Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles Alberto Llobat, Jorge Escorihuela, Daniel M. Sedgwick,* Miriam Rodenes, Raquel Román, Vadim A. Soloshonok, Jianlin […]

Protection of ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts by encapsulation in a self-assembled resorcinarene capsule Lukas J. Jongkind, Maryam Rahimi, David Poole III, Stephanie J. Ton, Deryn E. Fogg* and Joost N.H. Reek* ChemCatChem 2020 ASAP Synthesis of symmetrical dodeco-6,7-diuloses Marius Bayer, Simon Stocker, Cäcilia Maichle-Mössmer, and Thomas Ziegler* Eur J Org Chem 2020 ASAP One-Pot Tandem […]