The fascinating story of olefin (or alkene) metathesis (eq 1) began almost five decades ago,
when Anderson and Merckling reported the first carbonrcarbon double-bond rearrangement …

In recent years, the olefin metathesis reaction has attracted widespread attention as a
versatile carbon− carbon bond-forming method. Many new applications have become …

Catalytic olefin metathesis has quickly emerged as one of the most often‐used
transformations in modern chemical synthesis. One class of catalysts that has led the way to …

The reaction between Mo (CZ-Bu)(dme) Cl3 (dme= 1, 2-dimethoxyethane) and Me3SiNHAr
(Ar= 2, 6-diisopropyl phenyl) yields Mo (CZ-Bu)(NHAr) Cl2 (dme)(1), which upon treatment …

Metathesis is one of the most spectacular recent improvements in synthetic strategies for
organic synthesis and polymer science. The historical aspects and modern developments of …

Mechanistic and synthetic studies in organometallic chemistry have provided considerable
insight into olefin metathesis and Ziegler-Natta polymerization. New homogeneous olefin …

Silasesquioxanes are an interesting class of ligands for both main group and transition-
metal elements. A variety of coordination environments can be supported by …

The emission properties of jet-cooled adducts between ethers and some aromatic
hydrocarbons may be accounted for by as-suming an excited state that is a superposition of …

Carbene Chemistry Page 1 Page 2 Carbene Chemistry FROM FLEETING
INTERMEDIATES TO POWERFUL REAGENTS Edited by Guy Bertrand Page 3 ISBN 0-203-91092-3 …

The first alkylidene complex in which the metal can be said to have a d0 electron
configuration (counting the alkylidene ligand as a dianion) was discovered in 1974 (1) …