The 1, 2-hydrogen-shift rearrangement in alkylchlorocarbenes

JA LaVilla, JL Goodman

Index: LaVilla, Joseph A.; Goodman, Joshua L. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1989 , vol. 111, # 17 p. 6877 - 6878

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Abstract

The 1, 2-hydrogen-shift rearrangement of a singlet alkylcarbene to produce an olefin is a general reaction of current theoretical and experimental interest.] Although the rearrangement can be simply regarded as an insertion into an a CH bond, the structure and energy of the transition state are still in question. Recent theoretical calculations predict this highly exothermic process to have an extremely low activation energy, 1 5 kcal/mol. 2 For ...