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Ethenolysis: A Green Catalytic Tool to Cleave Carbon–Carbon Double Bonds
Author(s) -
Bidange Johan,
Fischmeister Cédric,
Bruneau Christian
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201601052
Subject(s) - ethylene , catalysis , carbon fibers , metathesis , double bond , olefin fiber , cleave , reinforced carbon–carbon , olefin metathesis , chemistry , polymer , hydrocarbon , organic chemistry , materials science , polymerization , composite material , composite number , enzyme
Remarkable innovations have been made in the field of olefin metathesis due to the design and preparation of new catalysts. Ethenolysis, which is cross‐metathesis with ethylene, represents one catalytic transformation that has been used with the purpose of cleaving internal carbon–carbon double bonds. The objectives were either the ring opening of cyclic olefins to produce dienes or the shortening of unsaturated hydrocarbon chains to degrade polymers or generate valuable shorter terminal olefins in a controlled manner. This Review summarizes several aspects of this reaction: the catalysts, their degradation in the presence of ethylene, some parameters driving their productivity, the side reactions, and the applications of ethenolysis in organic synthesis and in potential industrial applications.