Synthesis and Evaluation of Sterically Demanding Ruthenium Dithiolate Catalysts for Stereoretentive Olefin Metathesis T. Patrick Montgomery, Jessica M. Grandner, K. N. Houk, and Robert H. Grubbs* Organometallics 2017 ASAP Synthesis and Characterization of Functional Polyethylene with Regularly Distributed Thioester Pendants via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization Shaofei Song, Zhen Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, Zhisheng Fu, Junting Xu, Zhiqiang […]
ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 40
Total Synthesis of Kanamienamide D. Prabhakar Reddy, Ning Zhang, Zhimei Yu, Zhen Wang, and Yun He* J Org Chem 2017 ASAP A 1,2-Dicarbadodecaborane(12)-1,2-Dithiolate Chelating Ruthenium Carbene Catalyst for Highly Z Selective Olefin Metathesis Tao Wang, Yulian Duan, Xinying Liu, Qingxiao Xie, Weijie Guo, Xiaobo Yu, Shutao Wu, Jianhui Wang,* and Guiyan Liu* Organometallics 2017 ASAP […]
ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 39
Formal total synthesis of stigmatellin A J. S. Yadav,* G.Revathi, B. V. Subba Reddy Tetrahedron Letters 2017 58 3943-3946 Synthesis of Tricyclic Units of Indole Alkaloids: Application of Fischer Indolization and Olefin Metathesis Sambasivarao Kotha,* Vikas R. Aswar and Gaurav Singhal Tetrahedron 2017 ASAP Kinetic Study of Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization with Third-Generation Grubbs Catalysts […]
ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 37 & 38
Mid-chain carboxylic acids by catalytic refining of microalgae oil Julia Zimmerer, Lara Williams, Dennis Pingen and Stefan Mecking* Green Chem 2017 ASAP Model studies for the preparation of Oxepanes and fused compounds via tandem 4+3 cycloaddition/ Ring Opening Metathesis/Cross Metathesis Paolo Disetti, Linda Piras, Maria Moccia, Michele Saviano and Mauro F. A. Adamo* Eur J […]
ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 36
Synthesis of Amphiphilic Homopolymers and Their Self-Assembly into Acid-Responsive Polymeric Micelles Hyeongju Noh, Ho-Joong Kim,* Si Kyung Yang* J Polym Sci A 2017 ASAP Synthesis and One-Dimensional Assembly of Cylindrical Polymer Nanoparticles Prepared from Tricomponent Bottlebrush Copolymers Sebla Onbulak, Javid Rzayev* J Polym Sci A 2017 ASAP Evaluation of Several Molybdenum and Ruthenium Catalysts for […]
ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 35
Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Analogues of Phytohormones Strigolactones with Ring-Closing Metathesis as a Key Step Chiara Lombardi, Emma Artuso, Eleonora Grandi, Marco Lolli, Francesca Spyrakis, Emanuele Priola, and Cristina Prandi* Org Biomol Chem 2017 ASAP Stereoselective synthesis and anticancer activity of broussonetine analogues Dominika Jacková, Miroslava Martinková,* Jozef Gonda, Mária Vilková, Martina Bago […]
ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 34
Exploiting and Understanding the Selectivity in NHC-Based Ru Metathesis Catalysts for the Ethenolysis of Cyclic Olefins to α,ω-Dienes Pascal S. Engl, Celine B. Santiago, Christopher P. Gordon, Wei-Chih Liao, Alexey Fedorov,* Christophe Copéret,* Matthew S Sigman,* and Antonio Togni* J Am Chem Soc 2017 ASAP Dynamic Anion-Adaptive Poly(Ionic Liquid) Films via Surface-Initiated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization […]
ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 33
Fifty years of (benz)oxaphospholene chemistry Jan K. E. T. Berton, Dr. Thomas S. A. Heugebaert, Prof. Dr. David Virieux, Prof. Dr. Christian V. Stevens* Chem Eur J 2017 ASAP Section 2.4 reviews the use of ring closing metathesis to prepare oxaphospholenes ROMPISA: Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly Daniel B. Wright, Mollie A. Touve, Lisa Adamiak, and […]
ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 32
Iodine-mediated rearrangements of diallylsilanes Gregory W. O’Neil,* Elizabeth J. Cummins Tet Lett 2017 58 3406-3409 Total synthesis of greensporone C Kwanruthai Tadpetch,* Laksamee Jeanmard, Vatcharin Rukachaisirikul Tet Lett 2017 58 3453-3456 A Highly Stereoselective and Efficient Catalytic Approach for the Synthesis of trans-Stilbene–Arenes as π-Conjugated Materials Mariusz Majchrzak,* Grzegorz Wilkowski, and Maciej Kubicki Eur J […]
ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 31
Design and Synthesis of Cyclic Mismatch-Binding Ligands (CMBLs) with Variable Linkers by Ring-Closing Metathesis and their Photophysical and DNA Repeat Binding Properties Sanjukta Mukherjee,* Chikara Dohno, Kazuhiko Nakatani* Chem Eur J 2017 ASAP Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Hydrogenated Azocine-Containing Molecules Anna V. Listratova, Leonid G. Voskressensky* Synthesis 2017 ASAP Section 5 highlights ring-closing […]
ASAP’s – 2017 – Week 30
New articles are always exciting and in an effort to bring more visibility to the community we’re experimenting with a recurring series of posts featuring the literary achievements of metathesis practitioners. As with all experiments, there are some constraints: 1. This is not an exhaustive list of olefin metathesis ASAP’s Our primary interest lies in […]