Mechanistic and kinetic insights into the thermally induced rearrangement of α-pinene

…, B Ondruschka, M Findeisen

Index: Stolle, Achim; Brauns, Claudia; Nuechter, Matthias; Ondruschka, Bernd; Bonrath, Werner; Findeisen, Matthias European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2006 , # 15 p. 3317 - 3325

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Abstract

The thermal rearrangement of α-pinene (1) is interesting from mechanistic as well as kinetic point of view. Carrier gas pyrolyses with 1 and its acyclic isomers ocimene (2) and alloocimene (3) were performed to investigate the thermal network of these hydrocarbons. Kinetic analysis of the major reaction steps allows for a deeper insight in the reaction mechanism. Thus it was possible to explain the racemization of 1, the formation of racemic ...