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 […]

Total Synthesis of Sch 725674 Kannan Vaithegi, Kavirayani R. Prasad* Tetrahedron 2018 74 2488-2492 Hoveyda-Grubbs II Catalyst: A Useful Catalyst for One-Pot Visible-Light-Promoted Ring Contraction and Olefin Metathesis Reactions Yun Ge, Wangbin Sun, Bingbing Pei, Jia Ding, Yaojia Jiang,* and Teck-Peng Loh* Org Lett 2018 ASAP Formal Total Synthesis of Actinoranone: Synthetic Approaches and Cytotoxic […]

Synthesis of Alkaline Anion Exchange Membranes with Chemically Stable Imidazolium Cations: Unexpected Cross-Linked Macrocycles from Ring-Fused ROMP Monomers Wei You, Kristina M. Hugar, and Geoffrey W. Coates* Macromolecules 2018 ASAP Iterative Synthetic Strategy for Azaphenalene Alkaloids. Total Synthesis of (-)-9a-epi-Hippocasine S&iactue;lvia Alujas-Burgos, Cristina Oliveras-González, Ángel Álvarez-Larena, Pau Bayón*, and Marta Figueredo,* J Org Chem 2018 […]

Medium Fluorous Separation Using Hydrofluoroether and Weakly Polar Solvents for Environmentally Friendly Recycling of Catalysts Jan Hošek, Ondřej Šimůnek, Pavlína Lipovská, Viola Kolaříková, Kateřina Kučnirová, Antonín Edr, Nikola Štěpánková, Markéta Rybáčková, Josef Cvačka, and Jaroslav Kvíčala* ACS Sustainable Chem Eng 2018 ASAP An Initiation Kinetics Prediction Model Enables Rational Design of Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts […]

Iriomoteolides: novel chemical tools to study actin dynamics A. Unzue, R. Cribiú, M. M. Hoffman, T. Knehans, K. Lafleur, A. Caflisch* and C. Nevado* Chem Sci 2018 ASAP Microalgae lipids as a feedstock for the production of benzene Dennis Pingen, Julia Zimmerer, Nele Klinkenberg and Stefan Mecking* Green Chem 2018 ASAP Ammonium NHC-tagged olefin metathesis […]

Synthesis of jaspine B regioisomers through palladium-catalyzed stereoselective tetrahydrofuran formation: insight into the ligand recognition of sphingosine kinases Takashi Miyagawa, Shinsuke Inuki, Maho Honda, Shinya Nakamura, Isao Nakanishi, Nobutaka Fujii, Shinya Oishi, Hiroaki Ohno* Tetrahedron 2018 ASAP Efficient Synthesis of N-Alkylated 4-Pyridones by Copper-Catalyzed Intermolecular Asymmetric Propargylic Amination Wen Shao, Ye Wang, Ze-Peng Yang, Xiao […]

Synthesis and Application of Stereoretentive Ruthenium Catalysts on the Basis of the M7 and the Ru-Benzylidene-Oxazinone Design Adrien Dumas, Daniel S. Müller, Idriss Curbet, Loïc Toupet, Mathieu Rouen, Olivier Baslé* and Marc Mauduit* Organometallics 2018 ASAP Using stereoretention for the synthesis of E-macrocycles with ruthenium-based olefin metathesis catalysts Tonia S. Ahmed, T. Patrick Montgomery and […]

Porous Organic Polymers via Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization Yanchuan Zhao, Yuan He, and Timothy M. Swager* ACS Macro Lett 2018 7 300-304 Synthesis of Fucoidan-Mimetic Glycopolymers with Well-Defined Sulfation Patterns via Emulsion Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization Fei Fan, Chao Cai,* Wei Wang, Lei Gao, Jun Li, Jia Li, Feifei Gu, Tiantian Sun, Jianghua Li, Chunxia Li, […]