A Good Bargain: An Inexpensive, Air-Stable Ruthenium Metathesis Catalyst Derived from α-Asarone

✍ Scribed by Karol Grela; Mikhail Kim

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 100 KB
• Volume: 2003
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-193X
• DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200390151

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The one‐step synthesis of ruthenium carbene precatalyst 7 from inexpensive α‐asarone [(E)‐6] is described. This recyclable and easy to obtain complex can be used successfully in various types of metathesis (RCM, CM, enyne) as a cheaper and more potent substitute of the Hoveyda‐type precatalyst 2b. (© Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2003)