The potassium tert-butoxide catalyzed isomerization and hydrogen-isotope exchange reactions of cis-and trans-a-IIiethylstilbene and a-benzylstyrene, and of cis-and trans- stilbene, have been studied in tert-butyl alcohol and tert-butyl alcohol-0-d. The kinetics of deuterium incorporation and of isomerization of cis-and trens-a-methylstilbene and a- benzylstyrene into one another can be made most internally consistent with a mechanism ...
