Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Highly active alkyne metathesis catalysts operating under open air condition

  • Yanqing Ge,
  • Shaofeng Huang,
  • Yiming Hu,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Ling He,
  • Sebastian Krajewski,
  • Michael Ortiz,
  • Yinghua Jin,
  • Wei Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21364-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Alkyne metathesis catalysts usually suffer from high moisture/air sensitivity, which limit their wide applicability. Here, the authors report efficient alkyne metathesis catalysts that can operate under open-air conditions with a broad functional group tolerance.