ALLYLIC REARRANGEMENT


Meaning of ALLYLIC REARRANGEMENT in English

noun

: the migration of an ion or radical from one end of a 3-carbon allyl sequence to the other with concurrent shifting of the position of the double bond (as CH 2 =CHCHRX → XCH 2 CH=CHR)

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