Helvetica Chimica Acta

Ruthenium catalyst dichotomy: selective catalytic diene cycloisomerization or metathesis

D Sémeril, C Bruneau, PH Dixneuf

Index: Semeril, David; Bruneau, Christian; Dixneuf, Pierre H. Helvetica Chimica Acta, 2001 , vol. 84, # 11 p. 3335 - 3341

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Abstract

Abstract Ruthenium based catalysts are versatile promoters of a large variety of reactions. A catalytic system active in metathesis has been generated in situ from [RuCl 2 (p-cymene)] 2, 1, 3-bismesitylimidazolinium chloride, as precursor of a bulky carbene ligand, and cesium carbonate. We report that this three component catalytic system exhibits dichotomous reactivity for the transformation of dienes, providing an active catalytic system for the ...