Recent applications of alkene metathesis in fine chemical synthesis

NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 207-274

  Bicchielli, Dario ^a   Borguet, Yannick ^a   Delaude, Lionel ^a   Demonceau, Albert ^a   Dragutan, Ileana ^b   Dragutan, Valerian ^b   Jossifov, Christo ^c   Kalinova, Radostina ^c   Nicks, François ^a   Sauvage, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^c INSTITUTE OF POLYMERS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Alkene metathesis; Cross metathesis; Macrocycles; Ring closing metathesis; Ring opening metathesis; Ruthenium catalysts

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84867024273     PISSN: 18746489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3433-5_15     Document Type: Article

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