Rearrangement reaction

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A rearrangement reaction is a broad class of organic reactions where the carbon skeleton of a molecule is rearranged to give a structural isomer of the original molecule. Often a substituent moves from one atom to another atom in the same molecule. In the example below the substituent R moves from carbon atom C¹ to C².

RC¹-C²-C³ → C¹-RC²-C³

Intermolecular rearrangements also take place.

Rearrangement is not well represented by simple and discrete electron transfers (represented by curly arrows in organic chemistry texts). The actual mechanism of alkyl groups moving, as in Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement, probably involves transfer of the moving alkyl group fluidly along a bond, not ionic bond-breaking and forming. In pericyclic reactions, explanation by orbital interactions give a better picture than simple discrete electron transfers. It is, nevertheless, possible to draw the curly arrows for a sequence of discrete electron transfers that give the same result as a rearrangement reaction, although these are not necessarily realistic.

Some key rearrangement reactions:

• 1,2-rearrangements
• pericyclic reactions
• olefin metathesis

v • d • e Topics in Organic Reactions
Addition reaction - Elimination reaction - Polymerization - Reagents - Rearrangement reaction - Redox reaction - Regioselectivity - Stereoselectivity - Substitution reaction List of organic reactions

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