Yu, BaoyiHamad, Fatma B.Leus, KarenLyapkov, Alex A.Van Hecke, KristofVerpoort, Francis2016-06-182016-06-182015Yu, B., Hamad, F.B., Leus, K., Lyapkov, A.A., Van Hecke, K. and Verpoort, F., 2015. Alkyl group-tagged ruthenium indenylidene complexes: Synthesis, characterization and metathesis activity. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 791, pp.148-154.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2577We report on the synthesis of ruthenium indenylidene catalysts [RuCl2(3-R-1-indenylidene)(PCy3)2inwhich R is iso-propyl (7a), tert-butyl (7b) or cyclohexyl (7c)]. The obtained alkyl tagged indenylidenecatalysts were analyzed by means of IR, elementa l analysis, NMR and single crystal X-Ray diffractionanalysis. Furthermore, the catalytic performance of these new complexes was examined in dif ferentmetathesis reactions: ring-closing metathesis (RCM), ring-closing ene-yne metathesis (RCEYM), ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) and cross metathesis (CM), exhibiting a comparable activ-ity in comparison with the commercially available catalyst 3aenOlefin metathesisRutheniumIndenylideneHomogeneousCatalysisJournal Article, Peer Reviewed10.1002/chin.201551058