Bimolecular catalyst decomposition is a fundamental, long-standing challenge in olefin
metathesis. Emerging ruthenium–cyclic (alkyl)(amino) carbene (CAAC) catalysts, which …

Water is ubiquitous in olefin metathesis, at levels ranging from contaminant to cosolvent. It is
also non-benign. Water-promoted catalyst decomposition competes with metathesis, even …

Ruthenium-promoted ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) offers potentially
powerful routes to amine-functionalized polymers with antimicrobial, adhesive, and self …

Ruthenium catalysts for olefin metathesis are widely viewed as water-tolerant. Evidence is
presented, however, that even low concentrations of water cause catalyst decomposition …

Ruthenium–cyclic (alkyl)(amino) carbene (CAAC) catalysts, used at ppm levels, can enable
dramatically higher productivities in olefin metathesis than their N-heterocyclic carbene …

An unsaturated polymer's cis/trans-olefin content has a significant influence on its properties.
For polymers obtained by ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP), the cis/trans …

For decades, cyclopolymerization of α, ω-diyne derivatives has been an effective method to
synthesize various soluble polyacetylenes containing five-to seven-membered rings in the …

Cyclopolymerization is a powerful method for synthesizing polyacetylenes containing four‐to
seven‐membered rings. However, the structure of the repeat unit only consists of mono …

Clean, high-yielding routes are described to ruthenium–diiodide catalysts that were recently
shown to enable high productivity in olefin metathesis. For the second-generation Grubbs …

The selective transformation of 1-alkenes into E-olefins is a long-standing challenge in olefin
metathesis. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations predict high E-selectivity for …