Highly Efficient Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP) Using New Ruthenium Catalysts Containing N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands C.B. is grateful to the National Science Foundation for a pre-doctoral fellowship. The authors thank Dr. Matthias Scholl for providing catalysts 4 a and 4 c.

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