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Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 2274 - 2277, DOI: 10.1039/b907720k


Two-directional cross-metathesis

Annabella F. Newton, Stephen J. Roe, Jean-Christophe Legeay, Pooja Aggarwal, Camille Gignoux, Nicola J. Birch, Robert Nixon, Marie-Lyne Alcaraz and Robert A. Stockman


Two-directional cross-metathesis of a range of , dienes with a variety of electron deficient alkenes has been accomplished. It was found that the process is quite general and gives complete selectivity for the E,E-dienes, making this a very useful and high yielding protocol for two-directional chain elongation.

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