Synthesis and Application of Stereoretentive Ruthenium Catalysts on the Basis of the M7 and the Ru-Benzylidene-Oxazinone Design Adrien Dumas, Daniel S. Müller, Idriss Curbet, Loïc Toupet, Mathieu Rouen, Olivier Baslé* and Marc … [Continue reading]
Porous Organic Polymers via Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization Yanchuan Zhao, Yuan He, and Timothy M. Swager* ACS Macro Lett 2018 7 300-304 Synthesis of Fucoidan-Mimetic Glycopolymers with Well-Defined Sulfation Patterns via Emulsion … [Continue reading]
An Atom-Economic and Stereospecific Access to Trisubstituted Olefins through Enyne Cross Metathesis Followed by 1,4-Hydrogenation Friederike Ratsch and Hans-Günther Schmalz* Synlett 2018 ASAP Rapid, Regioselective Living Ring-Opening … [Continue reading]
Exploration of Ring Rearrangement Metathesis (RRM) reaction: A general and flexible approach for the rapid construction [5,n] fused bicyclic systems en-route to linear triquinanes Ranjan Kumar Acharyya, Rohan Kalyan Rej and Samik Nanda* J Org Chem … [Continue reading]
Light- and Thermal-Activated Olefin Metathesis of Hindered Substrates Elisa Ivry, Alexander Frenklah, Yakov Ginzburg, Efrat Levin, Israel Goldberg, Sebastian Kozuch, N. Gabriel Lemcoff, and Eyal Tzur* Organometallics 2018 ASAP Ring … [Continue reading]
Hyperbranched Aliphatic Polyester via Cross-Metathesis Polymerization: Synthesis and Postpolymerization Modification Fu-Rong Zeng, Ji-Mei Ma, Lin-Hao Sun, Zhen Zeng, Hong Jiang,* and Zi-Long Li* Macromol Rapid Commun 2017 ASAP Copper … [Continue reading]
Asymmetric Total Syntheses and Structure Confirmation of Chlorofucins and Bromofucins Byungsook Kim, Te-ik Sohn, Deukjoon Kim*, and Robert S. Paton* Chem Eur J 2017 ASAP Evidence for Dynamic Chemical Kinetics at Individual Ruthenium … [Continue reading]
Control of Molecular Weight and End-Functional Groups of Polyester from A2 + B2 Polycondensation via Cross-Metathesis of Cyclic Unsaturated Polyester with Difunctional Olefin Ryouichi Okabayashi, Yoshihiro Ohta, and Tsutomu Yokozawa* Macromolecules … [Continue reading]
In Situ Generated Ruthenium-Arene Catalyst for Photoactivated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization Through Photolatent N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand Julien Pinaud,* Thi Kim Hoang Trinh, David Sauvanier, Emeline Placet, Sriprapai Songsee, Patrick … [Continue reading]
Design, Synthesis, and Self-Assembly of Polymers with Tailored Graft Distributions Alice B. Chang, Tzu-Pin Lin, Niklas B. Thompson, Shao-Xiong Luo, Allegra L. Liberman-Martin, Hsiang-Yun Chen, Byeongdu Lee, and Robert H. Grubbs* J Am Chem Soc 2017 … [Continue reading]
The Metathesis Reaction in Drug Discovery and Development – A Review of Recent Patent Literature David L Hughes*, Philip Wheeler*, and Doina Ene Org Proc Res Dev 2017 ASAP A thorough review of patent literature (01/2016-08/2017) focused on the … [Continue reading]