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Norrish Reaction

Norrish Reaction

General Characteristics Upon photo-irradiation, carbonyl compounds undergo carbon-carbon bond cleavage reactions via biradical intermediates. The first type involves the formation of acyl radicals ...

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Cornforth Rearrangement

Cornforth Rearrangement

General Characteristics Oxazole compounds containing a carbonyl group at 4-position are known to undergo thermally driven rearrangement. Thiazoles have the similar property as well. General ...

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Beckmann Rearrangement

Beckmann Rearrangement

General Characteristics -The Beckmann rearrangement is the acid-induced rearrangement of oximes or its derivatives, which after hydration and tautomerization produces amides. Cyclic oximes give ...

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Boyer-Schmidt-Aube Rearrangement

Boyer-Schmidt-Aube Rearrangement

Characteristics Boyer-Schmidt-Aube Rearrangement is the Lewis acid-mediated reactions of simple ketones with alkyl azides.  It has been shown that the Schmidt reaction of alkyl azides, a reaction ...

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Dyotropic rearrangement

Dyotropic rearrangement

 Characteristics In 1972, M. T. Reetz originally defined dyotropic (from the greek dyo , meaning two) rearrangements as a new class of pericyclic valence isomerizations in which two σ ...

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