Living Metathesis and Metallotropy Polymerization Gives Conjugated Polyenynes from Multialkynes: How to Design Sequence-Specific Cascades for Polymers Cheol Kang, Seongyeon Kwon, Jong-Chan Sung, Jinwoo Kim, Mu-Hyun Baik,* and Tae-Lim Choi* J Am Chem Soc 2018 ASAP Rapid Decomposition of Olefin Metathesis Catalysts by a Truncated N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC): Efficient Catalyst Quenching and NHC Vinylation Stephanie […]

Synthesis and evaluation of Naphthalene-1,8-dithiolate chelating ruthenium carbene catalyst for Z-Stereoretentive olefin metathesis Tao Wang, Qingxiao Xie, Weijie Guo, Shutao Wu, Huiqing Zhang, Jianhui Wang* J Organometallic Chem 2018 ASAP Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization in Miniemulsion Using a TEGylated Ruthenium-Based Metathesis Catalyst Chunyang Zhu, Xiaowei Wu, Olena Zenkina, Matthew T. Zamora, Karen Moffat, Cathleen M. Crudden,* […]

Macromolecular Brushes by Combination of Ring-Opening and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization. Synthesis, Self-Assembly, Thermodynamics, and Dynamics Christiana Nikovia, Lazaros Theodoridis, Stelios Alexandris, Panayiotis Bilalis, Nikos Hadjichristidis, George Floudas,* and Marinos Pitsikalis* Macromolecules 2018 ASAP

Asymmetric Synthesis of an Advanced Tetracyclic Framework of (+)-Sarain A Yu Wang, Lingying Leng, Ying Liu, Guiying Dai, Fanglin Xue, Zhihao Chen, Jiao Meng, Guohua Wen, Yaxin Xiao, Xiao-Yu Liu, and Yong Qin* Org Lett 2018 ASAP Multifaceted study on a cytochalasin scaffold: lessons on reactivity, multidentate catalysis and anticancer properties Mehdi Zaghouani, Oscar Gayraud, […]

An Alternative Stereoselective Synthesis Of Greensporone C Venkata Naresh Vema, Bharathi kumari, Y. Sridhar Musulla, RamaKrishnam Raju Addada, Srinivasa Rao Alapati* Tetrahedron Letters 2018 ASAP Stereoretentive Olefin Metathesis Made Easy: In Situ Generation of Highly Selective Ruthenium Catalysts from Commercial Starting Materials Daniel S. Müller, Idriss Curbet, Yann Raoul, Jérôme Le Nôtre, Olivier Baslé, and […]

Total synthesis of JBIR-03 and asporyzin C Tetsuro Murokawa, Masaru Enomoto*, Takaaki Teranishi, Yusuke Ogura, Shigefumi Kuwahara* Tetrahedron Letters 2018 ASAP A Facile Synthesis of N-Boc-azocan-5-one Maricela Morales-Chamorro, Alfredo Vázquez* Synlett 2018 ASAP Construction of the highly oxidized bicyclo[3.2.1]octane CD ring system of aconitine via a late stage enyne cycloisomerization Xiao-Han Zhou, Ying Liu, Rui-Jie […]

Metathesis: Around the Catalytic Cycle an interview with Jessica Gomes-Jelonek, Philip Wheeler, and Dick Pederson by Christophe Le Ret Efficient enantiospecific synthesis of ent-conduramine F-1 Kavirayani R. Prasad,* Vipin Ashok Rangari Tetrahedron 2018 ASAP Cavitands as containers for α,ω-dienes and chaperones for olefin metathesis Nai-Wei Wu, Ioannis D. Petsalakis, Giannoula Theodorakopoulos, Yang Yu* and Julius […]

Design of a Selective RCEYM-Reduction for the Generation of Different Synthetic Scaffolds Denis N. Prada Gori, Caterina Permingeat Squizatto, Patricia G. Cornier and Carina M.L. Delpiccolo* J Org Chem 2018 ASAP Olefin Metathesis in Air Using Latent Ruthenium Catalysts: Imidazole Substituted Amphiphilic Hydrogenated ROMP Polymers Providing Nano-Sized Reaction Spaces in Water Bengi Özgün Öztürk,* Burcu […]

A Six-Crossing [2]Catenane with Twisted Rings (a Molecular 623 Link), and a Molecular Granny Knot Jonathan J. Danon, David A. Leigh,* Simone Pisano, Alberto Valero and Iñigo J. Vitorica-Yrezabal Angew Chem Int Ed 2018 ASAP Ruthenium Complexes Bearing Thiophene-Based Unsymmetrical N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands as Selective Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis in Toluene and Environmentally Friendly 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran […]

Efficient Conversion of Renewable Unsaturated Fatty Acid Methyl Esters by Cross-Metathesis with Eugenol Duy Le, Chanatip Samart, Ken Tsutsumi, Kotohiro Nomura,* and Suwadee Kongparakul* ACS Omega 2018 ASAP Molecular and kinetic design for the expanded control of molecular weights in ring-opening metathesis polymerization of norbornenesubstituted polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes Chang-Geun Chae, Yong-Guen Yu, Ho-Bin Seo, Myung-Jin […]

Relay Conjugation of Living Metathesis Polymers Liangbing Fu, Tianqi Zhang, Guanyao Fu and Will R. Gutekunst* J Am Chem Soc 2018 ASAP Enzyme-Responsive Polymer Nanoparticles via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly Daniel B. Wright, Matthew P. Thompson, Mollie A. Touve, Andrea S. Carlini, and Nathan C. Gianneschi* Macromol Rapid Commun 2018 ASAP Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity […]