Homodinuclear ruthenium catalysts for dimer ring-closing metathesis

Eyal Tzur, Amos Ben-Asuly, Charles E. Diesendruck, Israel Goldberg, N. Gabriel Lemcoff

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Abstract

(Chemical Equation Presented) Two ring or not to ring: Novel diruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts show a tendency to avoid oligomerization and favor cyclic dimerization when the distances between the ruthenium centers and between the diene extremities match (see scheme).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6422-6425
Number of pages4
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume47
Issue number34
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Aug 2008

Keywords

  • Alkenes
  • Carbene ligands
  • Cyclization
  • Metathesis
  • Ruthenium

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Catalysis
  • General Chemistry

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