Journal of the American Chemical Society

Rates of the Cope rearrangement of some 2-aryl-1, 5-hexadienes

EN Marvell, THC Li

Index: Marvell,E.N.; Li,T.H.-C. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1978 , vol. 100, # 3 p. 883 - 888

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Abstract

The mechanisms of the Cope and Claisen rearrangements must certainly be the most thoroughly investigated of all" concerted" thermal reactions.'Despite all of this study, the mechanism of the Cope rearrangement is once again in a fluxional perhaps an inevitable state for all mechanisms. The long series of careful studies of the mechanism during the 1950s and 1960s culminated in the general acceptance of a six-membered ring transition ...