Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9781305080485
Author: John E. McMurry
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 30.SE, Problem 17MP
Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The two sequential pericyclic reactions involved in the thermal rearrangement shown are to be identified and a mechanism to account for the observed result is to be proposed.

Concept introduction:

In electrocyclic reactions cyclic alkenes or dienes react to yield acyclic conjugated dienes as poducts. A σ bond is broken, a new π bond is formed and some π bonds change their positions. The reactions are reversible.

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