Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement
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A Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement is a class of carbocation 1,2-rearrangement reactions in which a hydrogen, alkyl or aryl group migrates from one carbon to a neighboring carbon.[1][2]
Several reviews have been published.[3][4][5][6][7]
The rearrangement was first discovered in bicyclic terpenes for example the conversion of isoborneol to camphene [8]:
The related Nametkin rearrangement named after Sergey Namyotkin involves the rearrangement of methyl groups in certain terpenes. In some cases the reaction type is also called a retropinacol rearrangement (see Pinacol rearrangement).
[edit] References
- ^ Wagner, G. J. Russ. Phys. Chem. Soc. 1899, 31, 690.
- ^ Hans Meerwein (1914). "Über den Reaktionsmechanismus der Umwandlung von Borneol in Camphen; [Dritte Mitteilung über Pinakolinumlagerungen.]". Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie 405: 129–175. doi:.
- ^ Popp, F. D.; McEwen, W. E. Chem. Rev. 1958, 58, 375. (Review)
- ^ Cargill, R. L. et al. Accts. Chem. Res. 1974, 7, 106-113. (Review)
- ^ Olah, G. A. Accts. Chem. Res. 1976, 9, 41. (Review)
- ^ Hogeveen, H.; Van Krutchten, E. M. G. A. Top. Curr. Chem. 1979, 80, 89-124. (Review)
- ^ Hanson, J. R. Comp. Org. Syn. 1991, 3, 705-719. (Review)
- ^ March, Jerry (1985). Advanced Organic Chemistry, Reactions, Mechanisms and Structure, third Edition, John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-85472-7.
