A. Abell, N. Alexander, S. G. Aitken
Apr 27, 2009
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The Journal of organic chemistry
Abstract
We report the synthesis of macrocycles 1-6 via ring closing metathesis of dienes 7-12. Addition of chlorodicyclohexylborane to thermal and microwave assisted RCM of dienes 8 and 9 markedly improves the yield. The geometric isomers of macrocycles 1-3 and 5 have been assigned using X-ray crystallography and NMR.