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3: Neighboring Group Participation, Rearrangements, and Fragmentations

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    • 3.1: Introduction to Neighboring Group Participation, Rearrangements, and Fragmentations
      This page provides an overview of the three types of reactions covered in this chapter: neighboring group participation, rearrangements, and fragmentations. It shows basic mechanisms for these reactions and highlights structural similarities and differences.
    • 3.2: Neighboring Group Participation
      This page highlights the importance of intramolecular nucleophiles (including heteroatoms, aromatic rings, and pi bonds) for mechanistic understanding of several interesting reactions.
    • 3.3: Rearrangements
      This chapter focuses on synthetically useful rearrangements including the pinacol, Payne, benzilic acid, Favorskii, Tiffeneau-Demjanov, Wolff, Curtius, Baeyer-Villager, and Beckmann rearrangements.
    • 3.4: Fragmentations
      This page focuses on synthetically useful fragmentations including the Grob and Eschenmoser fragmentations.


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