“Metafining” of Nerolidol with a Grubbs-Hoveyda Catalyst to Generate High-Performance Sustainable Aviation Fuels

trans-Nerolidol was quantitatively converted into a stoichiometric mixture of 2-methyl-cyclopentene-1-ol and 2,6-dimethyl-1,5-heptadiene via ring-closing metathesis with a 2nd generation Grubbs-Hoveyda catalyst at 0.03 mol% loading. The alcohol was then converted...