Technical Notes:

1.N-Heterocyclic carbene and phosphine ruthe nium indenylidene precatalysts: A comparative

study in olefin metathesis.

2.Ruthenium(IV) alkylidenes as pre catalysts for direct arylations of alkenes with aryl chlorides and an application to sequential catalysis.

3.Synthesis of high molecular weight comb block copolymers and their assembly into ordered morphologies in Synthesis of the solid state.

4.Autonomic healing of epoxy vinyl esters via ring opening metathesis polymerization.

5.Amide synthesis from alcohols and amines catalyzed by ruthenium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes. 6.Stereoselective synthesis of E,Z- configured 1 ,3 -dienes by ring-closing metathesis.

7.Application to the total synthesis of lactimidomycin.

8.Long- Spaced aliphatic polyesters

9.A highly efficient olefin metathesis process for the synthesis of terminal alkenes from fatty acid esters.

10.Enaminones via ruthenium catalyzed coupling of thioamides and a diazocarbonyI compounds.