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Rearrangement reaction
A rearrangement reaction is a broad class of organic reactions where the carbon skeleton of a molecule is rearranged to give a structural isomer of the original molecule. Often a substituent moves from one atom to another atom in the same molecule. In the example below the substituent R moves from carbon atom C1 to C2.
RC1-C2-C3 → C1-RC2-C3
Rearrangement reactions are divided in:
- 1,2-rearrangements
- electrocyclic rearrangements
- olefin metathesis
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