Design of Living Ring??Opening Alkyne Metathesis

FR Fischer, C Nuckolls

Index: Fischer, Felix R.; Nuckolls, Colin Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2010 , vol. 49, # 40 p. 7257 - 7260

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Abstract

Despite the tremendous impact of alkene ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) on the design and the synthesis of polymers and functional materials,[1] examples for the analogous alkyne ROMP remain scarce.[2] This imbalance can be rationalized by the limited availability of commercially available catalysts [3] and the lack of alkyne metathesis monomers.[2] We present here the synthesis and a systematic study of the ROMP ...