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. […]

Synthesis of high-molecular weight poly(1,1-dimethyl-1-silapentene) by olefin metathesis polymerization in the presence of Grubbs catalysts Alexander Morontsev, Maria Gringolts*, Valentin Lakhtin, Eugene Finkelshtein J Organomet Chem 2020 ASAP Fast Oxygen Scavenging of Macroporous Poly(Norbornadiene) Prepared by Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization Efthymia Vakalopoulou, Sergey M. Borisov, and Christian Slugovc* Macromol Rapid Comm 2020 ASAP Robust Olefin Metathesis […]

A Macrocyclic Ruthenium Carbene for Size-Selective Alkene Metathesis Yutong Zhang and Steven T. Diver* J Am Chem Soc 2020 ASAP Synthesis and Activity of Six-Membered Cyclic Alkyl Amino Carbene-Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Adrian E. Samkian, Yan Xu, Scott C. Virgil, Ki-Young Yoon, and Robert H. Grubbs* Organometallics 2020 ASAP Latent Ruthenium Benzylidene Phosphite Complexes for […]

A Chiron Approach to the Stereoselective Total Synthesis of Phomonol and Phytotoxic Nonenolides Naveen Chandra and Rodney A. Fernandes* Eur J Org Chem 2020 ASAP Optimized Ring Closing Metathesis Reaction Conditions to Suppress Desallyl Side Products in the Solid Phase Synthesis of Cyclic Peptides involving Tyrosine(O-allyl) Solomon A. Gisemba and Jane V. Aldrich* J Org […]

Enol Ethers Are Effective Monomers for Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization: Synthesis of Degradable and Depolymerizable Poly(2,3-dihydrofuran) John D Feist, and Yan Xia* J Am Chem Soc 2020 ASAP Total Synthesis of (-)-Pepluanol B: Conformational Control of the Eight-Membered Ring System Jing Zhang, Meng Liu, Chuanhua Wu, Gaoyuan Zhao, Peiqi Chen, Lin Zhou, Xingang Xie, Ran Fang, […]

A Fluorescence-Based High-Throughput Screening Method for Olefin Metathesis Using a Ratiometric Fluorescent Probe Hyeongju Noh, Taeho Lim, Byoung Yong Park, and Min Su Han* Org Lett 2019 ASAP Unprecedented Selectivity of Ruthenium Iodide Benzylidenes in Olefin Metathesis Reactions Noy B. Nechmad, Ravindra Phatake, Elisa Ivry, Albert Poater, and N. Gabriel Lemcoff* Angew Chem Int Ed […]