List of Contributors
Foreword
Contents of Other Volumes
Essay 1 Rearrangements of Carbocations
I. Introduction
II. Directly Observable Carbocations
III. Multiple Rearrangement Reactions
IV. Theoretical Studies
V. Conclusions
References
Essay 2 Gas-Phase Ion Rearrangements
I. Introduction
II. Importance of Metastable Peaks
III. Potential Energy Profile Approach
IV. Types of Potential Energy Profiles
V. Conclusions
References
Essay 3 Rearrangements of Carbenes and Nitrenes
I. General Introduction
II. 1,2 Rearrangements of Carbenes and Nitrenes
III. Type 1 Carbene-Carbene and Carbene-Nitrenes Rearrangements
IV. Type II Carbene-Carbene Rearrangements
References
Essay 4 Free-Radical Rearrangements
I. Introduction
II. Measurement of Rates of Unimolecular Radical Reactions
III. Rearrangement by Transfer of a Carbon-Centered Group
IV. Ring-Closure Reactions
V. Ring-Opening Reactions
VI. Rearrangement by Transfer of a Heteroatom-Centered Group
VII. Isomerization by Transfer of a Halogen Atom
VIII. Isomerization by Hydrogen Atom Transfer
IX. Rotation
X. Inversion
References
Essay 5 Hypothetical Biradical Pathways in Thermal Unimolecular Rearrangements
I. Introduction
II. 1,1 Biradicals (Carbenes)
III. 1,3 Biradicals
IV. 1,4 Biradicals
V. Biradicals in [1,3] and [1,5] Sigmatropic Rearrangements: Some Comments on the Principle of Least Motion 372
References
Essay 6 Rearrangements in Carbanions
I. Migration of Saturated Groups
II. Migration of Unsaturated Carbon
III. Migrations in Doubly Bonded Oxygen
References
Index