Organometallic Chemistry News: Accelerating influence of the gem-difluoromethylene group in a ring-closing olefin metathesis reaction. A Thorpe–Ingold effect?

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Accelerating influence of the gem-difluoromethylene group in a ring-closing olefin metathesis reaction. A Thorpe–Ingold effect?

Graphical abstract: Accelerating influence of the gem-difluoromethylene group in a ring-closing olefin metathesis reaction. A Thorpe–Ingold effect?

César A. Urbina-Blanco, Maciej Skibiński, David O'Hagan and Steven P. Nolan

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 7201-7203

DOI: 10.1039/C3CC44312D