Ring Size??Selective Ring??Closing Olefin Metathesis: Taking Advantage of the Deleterious Effect of Ethylene Gas

…, Y Kano, H Takahashi, A Yanagisawa

Index: Yoshida, Kazuhiro; Kano, Yuto; Takahashi, Hidetoshi; Yanagisawa, Akira Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 2011 , vol. 353, # 8 p. 1229 - 1233

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Abstract

Abstract The deleterious effect of ethylene gas on the ring-closing olefin metathesis (RCM) for the formation of 5-to 8-membered rings was investigated. Significant rate differences caused by ethylene gas were observed among the different ring-size formation reactions. Nevertheless, the rate differences can be advantageously utilized for chemoselective RCM.