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US 2009/0156766 A1Published application
Sulfur chelated ruthenium compounds useful as olefin metathesis catalysts
OwnerGabriel N. Lemcoff, Amos Ben-Asulyinventors
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Abstract
Sulfur chelated ruthenium compounds and methods and compositions involving the same. A method may relate to subjecting an olefin to a metathesis reaction in the presence of a sulfur chelated ruthenium compound. A composition may relate to an olefin starting material dissolved in an organic solvent together with a sulfur chelated ruthenium compound.
Claims10
1) A sulfur chelated ruthenium compound represented by the following formula:
- wherein M indicates the ruthenium metal bound to a benzylidene carbon;
- R represents C1-C7 alkyl group or optionally substituted aryl;
- X1 and X2 each independently represent halogen;
- Y1 and Y2 each independently denote unsubstituted or alkyl-substituted phenyl;
- and Z independently represents hydrogen, electron withdrawing or electron donating substituent, with m being an integer from 1 to 4.
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8) A process according 6, wherein the olefin starting material is cycloalkene and the metathesis reaction comprises the ring-opening polymerization of said cycloalkene to form a polymer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.