Fatty Acids and their Derivatives as Renewable Platform Molecules for the Chemical Industry Ursula Biermann, Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Ivo Feussner, Michael A. R. Meier,* Jürgen O. Metzger Angew Chem Int Ed 2021 ASAP Section 3.2.6 of this review details the last decade of olefin metathesis aided advances in the chemistry of natural oils and fats […]

Cyclic(Alkyl)(amino)carbenes (CAACs) in Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Jennifer Morvan, Marc Mauduit,* Guy Bertrand,* and Rodolphe Jazzar* ACS Catal 2021 11 1714-1748 Recent Developments in Z-Selective Olefin Metathesis Reactions by Molybdenum, Tungsten, Ruthenium, and Vanadium Catalysts Kamal M. Dawood,* and Kotohiro Nomura Adv Synth Catal 2021 ASAP Reactivity and Selectivity in Ruthenium Sulfur-Chelated Diiodo Catalysts Noy B. […]

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 […]