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Ring Closing Metathesis
If all goes well, I plan to write about Ring Closing Metathesis (RCM) quite a bit on this site, so I figured I needed a very broad RCM overview. Anyway, what kind of metathesis website would this be...
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Ring-opening Metathesis Polymerization
Ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) uses metathesis catalysts to generate polymers from cyclic olefins. ROMP is most effective on strained cyclic olefins, because the relief of ring strain is...
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Asymmetric Metathesis
The first asymmetric Mo-based metathesis catalyst was reported by Grubbs way back in 1996 (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 2499). Since then, a large number of other chiral catalysts have been developed,...
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Enyne Metathesis
Enyne metathesis is the reaction of an olefin and an alkyne to produce a 1,3-diene. When an alkyne is available to coordinate a ruthenium alkylidene, the reaction known as enyne metathesis can occur....
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Acyclic Diene Metathesis
Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET) uses metathesis of terminal dienes to produce linear polymers and ethylene. Because ADMET is actually a variation on cross-metathesis, the process is reversible, and...
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Cross Metathesis
Cross metathesis (CM) is an attractive alternative to other olefination methods due to the large variety of commercially available olefin starting materials and to the high functional group tolerance...
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