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 […]

A Scalable Membrane Pervaporation Approach for Continuous Flow Olefin Metathesis Christopher P. Breen, Christine Parrish, Ning Shangguan, Sudip Majumdar, Hannah Murnen, Timothy F. Jamison,* and Matthew M. Bio* Org Process Res Dev 2020 ASAP Ru-Catalyzed, cis-Selective Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Various Monomers, Including a Dendronized Macromonomer, and Implications to Enhanced Shear Stability Jung-Ah Song, […]

Making the Family Portrait Complete: Synthesis of Electron Withdrawing Group Activated Hoveyda-Grubbs Catalysts Bearing Sulfone and Ketone Functionalities Michał Bieniek, Robert Bujok, Mariusz Milewski, Dieter Arlt, Anna Kajetanowicz, Karol Grela* J Organomet Chem 2020 ASAP One-Step Ring Opening Metathesis Block-Like Copolymers and their Compositional Analysis by a Novel Retardation Technique Mohammad Yasir, Peng Liu, Jens […]

Relay Cross Metathesis for the Iterative Construction of Terpenoids and Synthesis of a Diterpene-Benzoate Macrolide of Biogenetic Relevance to the Bromophycolides Karim A. Bahou, D. Christopher Braddock,* Adam G. Meyer, and G. Paul Savage Org Lett 2020 22 8 3176-3179 Enantioselective formal synthesis of the marine macrolide (–)-callyspongiolide Aina Urbina, Núria Llor, Maria Vittoria Barbieri, […]

Syntheses of Complex Terpenes from Simple Polyprenyl Precursors Claire S. Harmange Magnani, Danny Q. Thach, Karl T. Haelsig, and Thomas J. Maimone* Acc Chem Res 2020 ASAP Total synthesis of prostratin, a bioactive tigliane diterpenoid: access to multi-stereocenter cyclohexanes from a phenol Guanghu Tong, Zhengwei Ding, Zhi Liu, You-Song Ding, Liang Xu,* Hailong Zhang, Pengfei […]

Stereoselective Synthesis of Conjugated Polyenes Based on Tethered Olefin Metathesis and Carbonyl Olefination: Application to the Total Synthesis of (+)-Bretonin B Kajsa Lood and Bernd Schmidt* J Org Chem 2020 ASAP A Relay Strategy Actuates Pre-Existing Trisubstituted Olefins in Monoterpenoids for Cross-Metathesis with Trisubstituted Alkenes Karim A. Bahou, D. Christopher Braddock,* Adam G. Meyer, G. […]