What is a discovery? Carbon skeletal rearrangements as counter-examples to the rule of minimal structural change

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 4655-4660

  Berson, Jerome A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; History of chemistry; Pinacol; Rearrangement; Structure elucidation

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CARBON; MOLECULES;

RADICAL CHANGES;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS;

ACETONE; BENZAMIDE; BENZILIC ACID; CARBON; KETONE; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; SODIUM; SULFURIC ACID;

ATOM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PINACOL REARRANGEMENT; REVIEW;

EID: 0037122066     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200290007     Document Type: Review

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