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Robert H. Grubbs
Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry

1. “Olefin Metathesis.” R. H. Grubbs, Tetrahedron 2004, 60, 7117-7140.

2. “Synthesis of Tri-Substituted Vinyl Boronates Via Ruthenium-Catalyzed Olefin Cross-Metathesis.” C. Morrill, T. W. Funk, and R. H. Grubbs, Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 7773-7736.

3. “Magic Ring Catenation by Olefin Metathesis.” E. N. Guidry, S. J. Cantrill, J. F. Stoddart, and R. H. Grubbs, Organic Lett. 2005, 7 (11), 2129-2132.

4. “Synthesis and Characterization of Stereoregular Ethylene-vinyl Alcohol Copolymers made by Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization.” O. A. Scherman, R. Walker, and R. H. Grubbs, Macromolecules 2005, 38, 9009-9014.

5. “Template-Directed Olefin Cross Metathesis.” S. J. Cantrill, R. H. Grubbs, D. L. Lanari, K. C. F. Leung, A. Nelson, K. G. Poulin-Kerstien, S. P. Smidt, J. F. Stoddart, and D. A. Tirrell, Organic Letters 2005, 7(19), 4213-4216.

6. “Prevention of Undesirable Isomerization during Olefin Metathesis.” S. H. Hong, D. P. Sanders, C. W. Lee, and R. H. Grubbs, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 17160-17161.

7. “Highly Active Chiral Ruthenium Catalysts for Asymmetric Ring-Closing Olefin Metathesis.” T. W. Funk, J. M. Berlin, and R. H. Grubbs, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128 (6), 1840-1846.

8. “Highly Active Water-Soluble Olefin Metathesis Catalyst.” S.H. Hong and R. H Grubbs, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128 (11), 3508-3509.

9. “Model Compounds of Ruthenium-Alkene Intermediates in Olefin Metathesis Reactions.” D. R. Anderson, D. D. Hickstein, D. J. O'Leary, and R. H. Grubbs, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128 (26), 8386-8387.

10. “Rhenium Catalyzed 1,3-Isomerization of Allylic Alcohols: Scope and Chirality Transfer.” C. Morrill, G. L. Beutner, and R. H. Grubbs, J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71 (20) 7813-7825.

11. “Olefin-Metathesis Catalysts for the Preparation of Molecules and Materials (Nobel Lecture).” R. H. Grubbs, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed Engl. 2006, 45 (23), 3760-3765.

12. “Rate Acceleration in Olefin Metathesis through a Flourine-Ruthenium Interaction.” T. Ritter, M. W. Day, and R. H. Grubbs, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128 (36), 11768-11769.

13. “Highly Active Chiral Ruthenium Catalysts for Asymmetric Cross- and Ring-Opening Cross-Metathesis.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. J. M. Berlin, S. D. Goldberg, and R. H. Grubbs, 2006, 45 (45), 7591-7595.

14. “Ruthenium Metallacycles Derived from 14-Electron Complexes - New Insights into the Stereochemistry of Olefin Metathesis Intermediates.” A. G. Wenzel and R. H. Grubbs, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128 (50), 16048-16049.

15. “Template-Directed One-Step Synthesis of Cyclic Trimers by ADMET.” H. Hou, K. C.-F. Leung, D. Larari, A. Nelson, J. F. Stoddart, and R. H. Grubbs. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 1228 (48), 15358-15359.