Nature Communications (May 2022)

Parts–per–million of ruthenium catalyze the selective chain–walking reaction of terminal alkenes

  • Sergio Sanz-Navarro,
  • Marta Mon,
  • Antonio Doménech-Carbó,
  • Rossella Greco,
  • Jorge Sánchez-Quesada,
  • Estela Espinós-Ferri,
  • Antonio Leyva-Pérez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30320-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The chain-walking of terminal alkenes is an industrially relevant reaction. Here, the authors show that part-per-million amounts of a variety of ruthenium compounds catalyze the reaction in yields and selectivity up to >99%, without any solvent or additive.