A series of ruthenium(II) ester-carbene complexes as olefin metathesis initiators: Metathesis of acrylates

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 4689-4693

  Ulman, Michael ^a   Belderrain, Tomás R ^a   Grubbs, Robert H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrylate; Carbene; Catalyst; Olefin metathesis; Ring opening; Ruthenium

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC ACID; CARBENE; CYCLOHEXENE DERIVATIVE; RUTHENIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; METAL BINDING; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; POLYMERIZATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034660543     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(00)00696-1     Document Type: Article

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17. The decomposition data obtained for the first 20 min of decomposition did not fit second order kinetics. For a more detailed discussion of the decomposition pathways for the ruthenium catalysts, see Ref. 8.
18. The catalysts based on N-heterocyclic carbene ligands reported in Ref. 2b-e are very active for propagating olefin metathesis but the rates of catalyst initiation are rather slow and significantly lower than for the ester-carbenes. In metathesis initiated by the ester-carbenes, the ester-carbene functionality is lost in the first catalyst turnover so the rates of propagation are equivalent to those achieved with the other bis-phosphine initiators. In claiming that the ester-carbenes are the most active catalysts, the implication is only for the first turnover after which the ester functionality is lost.