Olefin Metathesis A Brief History

The wealth of synthetic transformations that can be accomplished when this reaction is applied to appropriate substrates is astonish- 

RCM = ring-closing metathesis, ROM = ring-opening metathesis, ADMET = acyclic-diene metathesis polymerization, 

It would not be long before enlightenment was achieved as definitive evidence for the original Chauvin proposal came in late 1974 

With a singular mechanistic picture for olefin metathesis in hand, the transformation could be approached far more rationally, especially in terms of developing new reagents capable of effecting 

from 1976 onwards, the use of multi-component catalyst systems gradually lost its prominence, and the field of olefin meta- 

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