Chemistry Letters

Benzylic acid rearrangement in the solid state.

F Toda, K Tanaka, Y Kagawa, Y Sakaino

Index: Toda, Fumio; Tanaka, Koichi; Kagawa, Yukiko; Sakaino, Yoshiko Chemistry Letters, 1990 , # 3 p. 373 - 376

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Abstract

Benzylic acid rearrangements in the solid state were studied and some of them were found to proceed faster than in solution. Although the rearrangement which is initiated by an attack of OH− and then proceeds via radical intermediate was clarified to be similar to that in solution, the effect of alkali metal hydroxide on the rearrangement in the solid state was different from that in solution.