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Published May 7, 2012 in Henry Rzepa's Blog

The Baeyer-Villiger rearrangement was named after its discoverers, who in 1899 described the transformation of menthone into the corresponding lactone using Caro’s acid (peroxysulfuric acid). The mechanism is described in all text books of organic chemistry as involving an alkyl migration.

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Organic ChemistryPhysical and Theoretical ChemistryBiochemistry

The mechanism of the Baeyer–Villiger rearrangement: quantum chemistry and TST study supported by experimental kinetic data

https://doi.org/10.1039/b712608e

Published January 1, 2007 in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Authors J. Raul Alvarez-Idaboy, Lino Reyes, Nelaine Mora-Diez

General Medicine

Carbonyl oxide chemistry. Part 3. Regioselectivity of the first [3 + 2] cycloaddition of carbonyl oxides to phenyl isocyanate: one-pot synthesis of 1,2,4-dioxazolidin-3-ones

https://doi.org/10.1039/p19940003295

Published January 1, 1994 in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1

Authors M. Rosaria Iesce, Flavio Cermola, Federico Giordano, Rachele Scarpati, M. Liliana Graziano

InChI=1S/C3H7O2.C2F3O2/c1-3(2,4)5;3-2(4,5)1(6)7/h4H,1-2H3;RWCISIWHNWUMQG-UHFFFAOYSA-NOC([O])(C)C.[O]C(=O)C(F)(F)FCX1-15-37-1FTS

C 5 H 7 F 3 O 4

https://doi.org/10.14469/ch/13926

Published May 5, 2012

Authors Henry S Rzepa, Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Henry S Rzepa

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The mechanism of the Baeyer-Villiger rearrangement.

References

The mechanism of the Baeyer–Villiger rearrangement: quantum chemistry and TST study supported by experimental kinetic data

Carbonyl oxide chemistry. Part 3. Regioselectivity of the first [3 + 2] cycloaddition of carbonyl oxides to phenyl isocyanate: one-pot synthesis of 1,2,4-dioxazolidin-3-ones

C 5 H 7 F 3 O 4