Friday, February 27, 2009

Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangement

The generation of a carbocation followed by the [1,2]-shift of an adjacent carbon-carbon bond to generate a new carbocation.

Concise Means for Accessing an Advanced Precursor to 1-Deoxypaclitaxel
Xin Guo and Leo A. Paquette
J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70 (1), pp 315–320
DOI: 10.1021/jo048289g

Ring expansion of 11H-benzo[b]fluorene-11-methanols and related compounds leading to 17,18-diphenyldibenzo[a,o]pentaphene and related polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with extended conjugation and novel architectures
Yonghong Yang, Weixiang Dai, Yanzhong Zhang, Jeffrey L. Petersen, and Kung K. Wang
Tetrahedron, 2006, 62, pp 4364-4371
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2006.02.066

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