Conspectus The most important means for tuning and improving a catalyst's properties is the
delicate exchange of the ligand shell around the central metal atom. Perhaps for no other …

Light-induced catalysis and thermoplasmonics are promising fields creating many
opportunities for innovative research. Recent advances in light-induced olefin metathesis …

Light has a remarkable and often unique ability to promote chemical reactions. In
combination with transition metal catalysis, it offers exciting opportunities to modify catalyst …

Olefin metathesis is now one of the most efficient ways to create new carbon–carbon bonds.
While most efforts focused on the development of ever-more efficient catalysts, a particular …

Genetically encoded photosensitizers, proteins that produce reactive oxygen species when
illuminated with visible light, are increasingly used as optogenetic tools. Their applications …

This review describes the state of the art in photoswitchable organometallic catalysis,
underlining the importance of ligand design. The implementation of spatio-temporal control …

Abstract Development of versatile ruthenium olefin-metathesis catalysts with high activity,
stability, and selectivity is a continuous challenge. Here we report highly controllable …

Herein we show the design and synthesis of an electron-rich, sulfoxide-chelated, ruthenium
benzylidene. In contrast to previously reported sulfoxide-chelated ruthenium benzylidenes …

The Hoveyda–Grubbs catalyst (HG2, M720 Umicore) is among the most widely used
catalysts in olefin metathesis reactions. Given the usefulness of HG2 and the great interest in …

Olefin metathesis is one of the most important methods to form carbon–carbon double bonds
and has found many applications in industry and academia. The ability to initiate the …