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mechanism of isomerization
cueva:
how do isomerization reactions work? what's the mechanism? it bothers me to look at these reactionsa and accept dogmatically that they work without knowing HOW they work. the beauty of organic chemistry is the explanation of how reactions work, not the reactions themselves, right?
Blaze2:
Is not the isomerisation of an allylbenzene to propenyl known as a prototropic rearrangment
Rhodium:
What is a prototropic rearrangement? "proton rearrangement"?
http://rhodium.lycaeum.org
CHEM_GUY:
Isomerization has several different mechanisms by which they work and therefore is to exhaustive of a subject to try to tackel without some direction to focus upon. Some are basic thermodynamics, the formation of more stable compounds, other are a consequence of intermeidatary compound formation, and other yet can be surface catalyzed, and the list goes on...
What specific isomerization are you inquiring about?
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cueva:
proton rearangement? sounds easy. the question is still unanswered, how does it work (what is the mechanism)? specifically, the reaction im talking about is just a change in the position of a double bond (aka proton rearangement), say, safrole to isosafrole with CaO and base. what does the CaO accomplish? the base?
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