Cyclic ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts

Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Supported by Cyclic Alkyl Amlnocarbenes (CAACs)... 

Olefin metathesis catalysts based on ruthenium have been shown to exhibit a quite good tolerance to a variety of functional groups. The ring opening metathesis polymerization of strained, cyclic olefins initiated by group VIII salts and coordination complexes in aque-... 

Acyclic diene molecules are capable of undergoing intramolecular and intermolec-ular reactions in the presence of certain transition metal catalysts molybdenum alkylidene and ruthenium carbene complexes, for example [50, 51]. The intramolecular reaction, called ring-closing olefin metathesis (RCM), affords cyclic compounds, while the intermolecular reaction, called acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization, provides oligomers and polymers. Alteration of the dilution of the reaction mixture can to some extent control the intrinsic competition between RCM and ADMET. 

It has been shown that ruthenium carbene complex lb developed for olefin metathesis can catalyze RCM of enynes. Using this catalyst lb, five- to nine-membered ring compounds 3 are synthesized from enyne 2 (Scheme j) i Sa-iSc The reaction procedure for RCM of an enyne is very simple. A benzene solution of enyne 2b is stirred in the presence of 1 mol% of ruthenium carbene complex lb at room temperature (RT) under argon gas to give cyclic compound 3b having a diene moiety. 

Carbene transfer from the silver(I) complex is not only possible to ruthenium(II) to form a catalyst suitable for asymmetric olefin metathesis, but also to copper(I) [17]. This provides a catalyst suitable for copper(I) catalysed conjugate addition of alkyl- and arylzinc reagents to P-substituted cyclic enones. The products, chiral cyclic ketones, are obtained in 88-95% isolated yield and 67-83% ee. 

Well-defined ruthenium vinylidene complexes are efficient catalyst precursors for the ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of cyclic olefins (Fig. 9). Most of them are neutral 16-electron complexes of the type RuC12(L)2(=C=CHR) (LI) [65-68] and the more active precursors contain... 

Ring-opening metathesis polymerization, ROMP, using a cyclic and acyclic olefin monomer was used to prepare co-polymers with monomer alternation exceeding 95%. Monomer-to-ruthenium catalyst studies were also performed to minimize polydis-persities and maximize molecular weights. 

Ring closing metathesis of dienes to cyclic olefins CO2 Ruthenium catalyst... 

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