Chiral ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts can perform asymmetric ring-closing reactions in > or = 90% ee with low catalyst loadings. To illustrate the practicality of these reactions and the products they form, an enantioselective total synthesis of 5-epi-citreoviral was completed by using an asymmetric ring-closing olefin metathesis reaction as a key step early in the synthesis. All of the ...

GENERAL METHODS S4 SYNTHESIS OF SUBSTRATES S4-S6 Synthesis of (Z)and (E)-1-cyclohexyl-1,3-butadiene (8) Typical procedure for the synthesis of (Z)and (E)-1,3-dienes (Z)and (E)-1-Benzylbuta-1,3-diene (18) (Z)and (E)-1-(2-Furyl)-1,3-butadiene (21) (Z)and (E)-1-(4-Butyl-1-cyclohexyl)-1,3-butadiene (22) SYNTHESIS OF COBALT COMPLEXES S7 CHEMOSELECTIVE ASYMMETRIC HYDROVINYLATIONS S7 Asymmetric hydrov...