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 … [Continue reading]
“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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Ethyl lactate: A green solvent for olefin metathesis Sebastian Planer, Anupam Jana and Karol Grela* ChemSusChem 2019 ASAP Pulsed-addition ring-opening metathesis polymerization with functional enyne reagents Tianqi Zhang and Will R. … [Continue reading]
Photoinitiated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization Wontae Joo, Christopher H. Chen, Jonathan P. Moerdyk, Ryan P. Deschner, Christopher W. Bielawski, Carlton Grant Willson J Polym Sci A 2019 ASAP Engineering of Molecular Geometry in … [Continue reading]
Synthesis of N-Sulfonyl- and N-Acylpyrroles via a Ring-Closing Metathesis/Dehydrogenation Tandem Reaction Weiqiang Chen, Yin-Lin Zhang, Hui-Jing Li*, Xiang Nan, Ying Liu, Yan-Chao Wu* Synthesis 2019 ASAP Living β-Selective … [Continue reading]
Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly (ROMPISA) Spyridon Varlas, Jeffrey C. Foster,* and Rachel K. O’Reilly* Chem Comm 2019 ASAP A highlight of the recent advances in the field of ROMP mediated polymerization-induced … [Continue reading]
Electronic effects in mixed N-heterocyclic carbene/phosphite indenylidene ruthenium metathesis catalysts Yannick D. Bidal, César A. Urbina-Blanco, Albert Poater, David B. Cordes, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Luigi Cavallo and Catherine S. J. … [Continue reading]
Ruthenium-Catalyzed Alternating Ring-Opening Metathesis Copolymerization of Norborn-2-ene with Cyclic Olefins Veronica Paradiso and Fabia Grisi* Adv Synth Catal 2019 ASAP Recent developments in entropy-driven ring-opening metathesis … [Continue reading]
Three-Step Synthesis of Oxylipins from D. lortense Shreyosree Chatterjee,* Gayan A. Abeykoon,* Jason S. Chen Tetrahedron Letters 2019 ASAP Ovatodiolides: Scalable Protection-free Syntheses, Configuration Determination and Biological … [Continue reading]