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Claisen rearrangement en · NOUN

Etymology

Discovered by German chemist Rainer Ludwig Claisen.

Meanings

  1. A powerful carbon–carbon bond-forming chemical reaction, in which the heating of an allyl vinyl ether initiates a [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement to give a γ,δ-unsaturated carbonyl.

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