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 […]

Processable epoxy-telechelic polyalkenamers and polyolefins for photocurable elastomers Luke A. Kassekert, Claire E. Dingwell, Guilhem X. De Hoe and Marc A. Hillmyer* Polymer Chem 2019 ASAP Unintended Formation of a 26-Membered Cycle in the Course of a Novel Approach to Myricanol, a Strained [7,0]-Metacyclophane Paul Massé, Sabine Choppin,* Lucia Chiummiento,* Gilles Hanquet, Françoise Colobert Synlett […]

Synthesis and in vitro biological evaluation of 3-amino-3-deoxydihydrosphingosines and their analogues Jana Špaková Raschmanová, Miroslava Martinková,* Jozef Gonda, Martina Bago Pilátová, Juraj Kuchár, Dávid Jáger Tetrahedron 2019 ASAP Synthesis of Functionalized 6,5- and 7,5-Azabicycloalkane Amino Acids by Metathesis Reactions Massimo Serra,* Eric Bernardi, Ersilia De Lorenzi, and Lino Colombo J Org Chem 2019 ASAP Olefin […]

A Gentler Touch: Synthesis of Modern Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Sustained by Mechanical Force Nirmalya Mukherjee, Anna Marczyk, Grzegorz Szczepaniak, Adrian Sytniczuk, Anna Kajetanowicz, and Karol Grela* ChemCatChem 2019 ASAP This article details the application of mechanochemical synthesis to the prototypical transformations utilized in olefin metathesis catalyst synthesis. Two papers recently examined the mechanism of […]

Fluoro-imidazopyridinylidene Ruthenium Catalysts for Cross Metathesis with Ethylene Seunghwan Byun, Huiyeong Seo, Jun-Ho Choi, Ji Yeon Ryu, Junseong Lee, Won-jin Chung,* and Sukwon Hong* Organometallics 2019 ASAP Synthetic mimics of cyclic antimicrobial peptides via templated ring-opening metathesis (TROM) Zhe Zhou, Cansu Ergene and Edmund F. Palermo* Polymer Chem 2019 ASAP Tuning the Reactivity of Cyclopropenes […]

A Divergent Synthetic Route to the Vallesamidine, Strempeliopine and Schizozygine Alkaloids: Total Synthesis of (+)-Vallesamidine and (+)-14,15-Dehydrostrempeliopine Xiangyu Zhang and James. C. Anderson* Angew Chem Int Ed 2019 ASAP Chemoenzymatic cascade for stilbene production from cinnamic acid catalyzed by ferulic acid decarboxylase and an artificial metathease M. A. Stephanie Mertens, Daniel F. Sauer, Ulrich Markel, […]

“Close-to-Release”: Spontaneous Bioorthogonal Uncaging Resulting from Ring-Closing Metathesis Valerio Sabatino, Johannes G. Rebelein, and Thomas R. Ward* J Am Chem Soc 2019 ASAP A Metathetic Approach to [5/5/6] Aza-Tricyclic Core of Dendrobine, Kopsanone, and Lycopalhine A Type of Alkaloids Sambasivarao Kotha*, Sunil Pulletikurti Synthesis 2019 ASAP Total Synthesis of PGF2α and 6,15-Diketo-PGF1α and Formal Synthesis […]

Resonance Promoted Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Twisted Amides Mizhi Xu, Krista K. Bullard, Aja M. Nicely and Will R. Gutekunst* Chem Sci 2019 ASAP Activation of olefin metathesis complexes containing unsymmetrical unsaturated N-heterocyclic carbenes by copper and gold transmetalation Fadwa Kamal, Sophie Colombel-Rouen, Adrien Dumas, Jean-Paul Guégan, Thierry Roisnel, Vincent Dorcet, Olivier Baslé, Mathieu Rouen […]

Catalytic Living Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerisation: The Importance of Ring Strain in Chain Transfer Agents Peng Liu, Mohammad Yasir and Andreas F.M. Kilbinger* Angew Chem Int Ed 2019 ASAP Highly active ruthenium metathesis catalysts enabling ring-opening metathesis polymerization of cyclopentadiene at low temperatures Kitaek Song, Kunsoon Kim, Daeun Hong, Jungwon Kim, Chae Eun Heo, Hugh […]