Controlled Oligomerization of Methyl Methacrylate with Template

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The dedicated efforts of talented co-workers at Penn State (Dr. Yoon Lee, John Bobo, Dr. Gregory Tewalt, Dr. William Shiang, Paul Weinreb and Susan Ensel) and at Duke (Greg Miracle and Scott Cannizzaro) are gratefully acknowledged, as is financial support from the National Science Foundation (Penn State and Duke) and the National Institutes of Health (Duke). 

In generalizing the latter examples one may be tempted to assume that all metal-assisted cyclization and cross coupling reactions are templated processes. This viewpoint, however, not only sets an impractically wide scope for a review, it may even be incorrect. Therefore, the present article does not try to cover all potentially templated ring closure reactions [4], but presents just a very limited and personal selection of metal-assisted or metal-catalyzed cyclizations based on C-C coupling reactions. They are analyzed with the intention to deduce more accurately what the phenomenological effect of tern-plating refers to. 

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