Abstract Grubbs' ruthenium catalyst 2 has been employed in model studies of the acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization of soybean oil. In the presence of 0.1 mol% of catalyst 2, the ADMET polymerization of ethylene glycol dioleate afforded the isomerized (E)- dioleate (27%), dimer (18%), trimer (13%), tetramer (7%), pentamer (5%), hexamer (4%), heptamer (4%), and 9-octadecene (21%). Only a trace of any intramolecular cyclized ...
