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Origin of the High Activity of Second-Generation Grubbs Catalysts†
Bernd F. Straub Dr.,
Bernd F. Straub Dr.
Department of Chemie and Biochemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Butenandtstrasse 5–13 (Haus F), 81377 München, Germany, Fax: (+49) 89-2180-77717
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Bernd F. Straub Dr.
Department of Chemie and Biochemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Butenandtstrasse 5–13 (Haus F), 81377 München, Germany, Fax: (+49) 89-2180-77717
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This research was supported by a Liebig-Fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. Generous support by the LMU Munich, Prof. Dr. Thomas Carell, and Prof. Dr. Herbert Mayr is gratefully acknowledged. Some of these results were presented in a lecture by B.F.S. at the Chemiedozententagung in Munich on March 9, 2005. The model structures 3 b,c to 11 b,c have been included in ref. [9] for a comparison of the overall activation energies of alkene metathesis and enyne metathesis.
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