REARRANGEMENTREACTION

Rearrangement reaction

A rearrangement reaction is a broad class of organic reactions where the carbon skeleton of a molecule is rearranged to give a structural isomer of the original molecule. Often a substituent moves from one atom to another atom in the same molecule. In the example below the substituent R moves from carbon atom 1 to carbon atom 2:

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rearrangement reaction

Noun

  1. any of many classes of reaction in which an atom or bond moves or migrates from a site in a reactant molecule to a different site in a product molecule


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