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Kinetically E-selective macrocyclic ring-closing metathesis
- Shen, Xiao;
- Nguyen, Thach T;
- Koh, Ming Joo;
- Xu, Dongmin;
- Speed, Alexander WH;
- Schrock, Richard R;
- Hoveyda, Amir H
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20800Abstract
Ring-closing metathesis is a widely used chemical transformation that can generate organic macrocycle compounds; here, an approach is described by which the E-stereoisomer of a macrocycle is generated selectively, exemplified by synthesizing the antibiotic recifeolide and the anti-cancer drug pacritinib.
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