A ring-closing olefin metathesis (RCM) to an eightmembered ring is suitable to induce a conformational switch of a 2,3,6,7-tetrasubstituted cis-decalin. The double-ring flip of the decalin scaffold can be reversed by a ring-opening metathesis. The corresponding RCM to a 14-membered ring
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