Posts Tagged ‘dibromoethane’

More is more: the dyotropic rearrangement of 1,2-dibromoethane.

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

In the previous post,  I discussed what we could learn from ethane by forcing it into a pericyclic dyotropic rearrangement. We saw how it voraciously scavenged two electrons from the  C-C bond to achieve this. What if we give it more electrons? Thus 1,2-dibromoethane undergoing the same reaction.

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