1. Ruthenium – Carbene Mediated Reaction
Olefin Metathesis
Ruthenium – Carbene
Mediated Reaction

2. Organometallic Catalyst is Used
This reaction can be thought of as a reaction where all the C=C bonds are cleaved and then rearranged in a statistical fashion.

3. Chauvin’s Mechanism (1971)

4. “Forbidden” [2+2] Cycloadditions

5. The Catalyst

6. Intramolecular Olefin Metathesis

7. Dimeric Dienes

8. Ring-opening Metathesis

9. Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP)

10. Cross-Metathesis

11. Cross Metathesis Synthesis of Z. cassumunar