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A 1,2-Wittig rearrangement is a categorization of chemical reactions in organic chemistry, and consists of a 1,2-rearrangement of an ether with an alkyllithium compound.〔Georg Wittig, L. Löhmann, Ann. 550, 260 (1942)〕〔G. Wittig, Experientia 14, 389 (1958).〕 The reaction is named for Nobel Prize winning chemist Georg Wittig. The intermediate product is an alkoxy lithium salt and the final product an alcohol. When R2 is a good leaving group and electron withdrawing functional group such as a cyanide (CN) group,〔''Preparation of aryl benzyl ketones by ()-Wittig rearrangement'' Alan R. Katritzky, Yuming Zhang, Sandeep K. Singh Arkivoc pp. 146–50 2002 (vii) (link )〕 this group is eliminated and the corresponding ketone is formed. ==Reaction mechanism== The reaction mechanism centers on the formation of a free radical pair with lithium migrating from the carbon atom to the oxygen atom. The R radical then recombines with the ketyl.〔''Wittig Rearrangement of Lithiated Allyl Aryl Ethers: A Mechanistic Study'' Sven Strunk, Manfred Schlosser European Journal of Organic Chemistry Volume 2006, Issue 19 , pp. 4393–97 〕 The alkyl group migrates in the order of thermodynamical stability methyl < primary alkyl < secondary alkyl < tertiary alkyl in this is line with the radical mechanism. The radical-ketyl pair is short lived and due to a solvent cage effect some isomerizations take place with retention of configuration. With certain allyl aryl ethers a competing reaction mechanism takes place.〔 The reaction of ''allyl phenyl ether'' 1 with ''sec-butyllithium'' at −78 °C gives the lithiated intermediate 2 which on heating to −25 °C only shows the rearranged product 5 but not 4 after trapping the lithium alkoxide with trimethylsilyl chloride. This result rules out a radical-ketyl intermediate 3a in favor of the Meisenheimer complex 3b. Additional evidence for this mechanism is provided by the finding that with a para tert-butyl substituent the reaction is retarded. The reaction is a formal dyotropic reaction. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1,2-Wittig rearrangement」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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