Prevention of undesirable isomerization during olefin metathesis

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 49, 2005, Pages 17160-17161

  Hong, Soon Hyeok ^a   Sanders, Daniel P ^a   Lee, Choon Woo ^b   Grubbs, Robert H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Materia Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 BENZOQUINONE; 1,4 BIS(TERT BUTYLDIMETHYLSILYLOXY) 2 BUTENE; 5 TERT BUTYLDIMETHYLSILYLOXY 2 PENTENOATE; ACETIC ACID; ALKENE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; PHENOL; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE; RUTHENIUM; SILANE DERIVATIVE; TRICYCLOHEXYLPHOSPHINE OXIDE; TRIFLUOROETHANOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; DECOMPOSITION; ISOMERIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; RING CLOSING METATHESIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 29044439970     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja052939w     Document Type: Article

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