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Olefinmetathesis catalysed by ruthenium has emerged at the frontier of modern synthetic chemistry. The desire to enhance catalyst stability, gain control over the catalytic process and deepen the understanding of the mechanisms of metathesis has yielded a class of latent ruthenium precatalysts of delayed initiation and with switchable activity. One of the main methodologies developed for this purpose has been the introduction of tethered carbene ligands. Herein we track the evolution of ruthenium based metathesiscatalysts bearing chelated alkylidenes, from the early oxygen Hoveyda type benzylidenes to the latent sulphur containing complexes.
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