Abstract
Light activation is a most desirable property for catalysis control. Among the many catalytic processes that may be activated by light, olefin metathesis stands out as both academically motivating and practically useful. Starting from early tungsten heterogeneous photoinitiated metathesis, up to modern ruthenium methods based on complex photoisomerisation or indirect photoactivation, this survey of the relevant literature summarises past and present developments in the use of light to expedite olefin ringclosing, ring-opening polymerisation and cross-metathesis reactions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1106-1119 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry |
| Volume | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 23 Nov 2010 |
Keywords
- Catalysis
- Light activation
- Olefin metathesis
- Photoactivation
- Photoinitiation
- Photoisomerisation
- RCM
- ROMP
- Ruthenium
- Tungsten
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Organic Chemistry