“…In the last two years, Schindler's group 6 and Li's group 7 reported elegant studies in which they utilized salts of iron( iii ), an abundant transition metal, 8 to promote intramolecular cyclization COM reactions ( Scheme 1a ). However, the full potential of this chemical transformation 3 , 9 has not been adequately studied for ring-opening 10 ( Scheme 1b ) or intermolecular 2 , 11 ( Scheme 1c ) COM reactions, which are typical variations of the well-studied olefin–olefin metathesis. Therefore, the substrate scope of the COM reaction needs to be expanded beyond intramolecular cyclization to deliver the prospective synthetic applications it invokes.…”