Eliminative ring fission. The retro-Thorpe–Ingold effect
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 12,p. 660
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39820000660
Abstract
In eliminative ring fission of cyclopropanes by the (E1cB)Rmechanism, gem-dimehtyl substitution substantially raises ΔH‡; for oxirans, which react by the E2 mechanism, this retro-Thorpe–Ingold effect is insufficient to make ring cleavage rate-determining.Keywords
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