The Journal of organic chemistry

Mechanistic insight into the formal [1, 3]-Migration in the thermal Claisen rearrangement

S Hou, X Li, J Xu

Index: Hou, Shili; Li, Xinyao; Xu, Jiaxi Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2012 , vol. 77, # 23 p. 10856 - 10869

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Abstract

The thermal formal [1, 3]-sigmatropic shift of allyl aryl ethers has been studied in depth experimentally with the aid of the density functional theory (DFT) calculations of the B3LYP function. Three mechanistic possibilities, referred to as the radical, ionic, and concerted