Tetrahedron letters

A highly efficient olefin metathesis initiator: improved synthesis and reactivity studies

AM Dunne, S Mix, S Blechert

Index: Dunne, Aideen M.; Mix, Stefan; Blechert, Siegfried Tetrahedron Letters, 2003 , vol. 44, # 13 p. 2733 - 2736

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Abstract

The synthesis of ligand 8, required for the preparation of catalyst 4c has been optimised. Ligand exchange studies indicate that biphenyl-based alkylidene 4c initiates considerably faster than its unsubstituted analogue 4a. The performance of 4c in ring-opening cross metathesis reactions involving substrates containing unprotected chelating atoms is also reported.