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Title: Will this reaction give two possible products?
Post by: kanonsviel on September 19, 2010, 01:55:09 AM

Apparently it's a Beckmann rearrangement, but will it form two possible intermediate oximides?
Or one of them is favored?

Title: Re: Will this reaction give two possible products?
Post by: sjb on September 19, 2010, 04:18:34 PM

What factors affect the course of a reaction?

Title: Re: Will this reaction give two possible products?
Post by: kanonsviel on September 20, 2010, 07:25:38 AM

...Are you suggesting that this depends on whether it's under thermodynamic or kinetic control? ???

Title: Re: Will this reaction give two possible products?
Post by: AWK on September 20, 2010, 08:08:54 AM

Quote from: kanonsviel on September 20, 2010, 07:25:38 AM

...Are you suggesting that this depends on whether it's under thermodynamic or kinetic control? ???

Think about isomers of oxime (syn-, anti-)