C. Marques, J. Ramalho, A. Burke
Aug 1, 2009
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Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry
Abstract
1,3-Diphenyl-2(13C)-hydroxy-3-methoxypropan-1-one was synthesised and used to probe the mechanism of a benzilic ester rearrangement (BER). Computational studies suggest that the preferred site of attack of the nucleophile in this benzilic ester rearrangement is on C-14. On the basis of these results a new reaction mechanism is proposed. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.