A recent strong trend toward green and sustainable chemistry has promoted the intensive
use of renewable carbon sources for the production of polymers, biofuels, chemicals …

Nature shows us that complex molecular architectures lead to unique material properties,
and these observations have driven polymer scientists to synthesize complex architectures …

Fluoroalkenes are known to be notoriously reluctant substrates for olefin metathesis due to
the generation of thermodynamically stable Fischer-type fluorocarbene intermediates, which …

Degradable polymers made via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) hold
tremendous promise as eco-friendly materials. However, most of the ROMP monomers are …

This mini-review highlights the recent research trends in designing organic or organic-
inorganic hybrid molecular, biomolecular and macromolecular systems employing …

Controlling the monomer sequence of synthetic polymers is a grand challenge in polymer
science. Conventional sequence control has been achieved in dispersed polymers by …

Dihydrofuran (DHF) has recently been gaining significant attention as a comonomer in
metathesis polymerization, thanks to its ability to provide the resultant polymer backbones …

Ruthenium alkoxymethylidene complexes have recently come into view as competent
species for metathesis copolymerization reactions when coupled with appropriate …

The ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of six-membered cyclic olefins has
been a long-standing challenge due to their low ring strain energies (RSEs). Here, we …

Terminal alkynes display high reactivity toward Ru-carbene metathesis catalysts. However,
the formation of a less reactive bulky carbene hinders their homopolymerization …