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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2011 Jun 8;133(25):9686–9688. doi: 10.1021/ja203488e

Table 3.

Solvent screen for cross-metathesis of 5 with 1 at RT.a

Substrate Solvent Time [h] Conv.b [%] Zb [%]
MeCN 3 (28) 19 (76) 94 (91)
MeOH 3 (28) 49 (87) 88 (75)
EtOH 3 (28) 50 (86) 89 (76)
C6H6 3 (21) 13 (77) >95 (84)
methyl undecenoate (5) Et2O 3 (7) 50 (85) 93 (73)
DMF 3 (21) 44 (77) 92 (87)
CH2Cl2 3 (21) 35 (81) 93 (85)
(CF3)2CHOH 3 (28) 0 (0) -
diglyme 3 (28) 31 (81) 95 (80)
a

2 mol% catalyst in solvent (2.25 M in substrate) at 25 °C.

b

Measured by 1H NMR Spectroscopy.