Alkene metathesis for transformations of renewables

Abstract

Alkene metathesis of unsaturated bio-sourced olefins, a green and atom economic strategy, has been recently investigated with the objective of producing high-value molecules and polymer precursors. This chapter contains the recent developments in this field using terpenes, terpenoids, and fatty acid derivatives as olefin metathesis partners. The successful achievements with these renewable substrates presenting different types of carbon-carbon double bonds in self-metathesis, ring closing metathesis, cross metathesis including ethenolysis, and ring opening metathesis are presented.