Pubblicato in Henry Rzepa's Blog
Autore Henry Rzepa
One thing almost always leads to another in chemistry. In the last post, I described how an antiperiplanar migration could compete with an antiperiplanar elimination. This leads to the hydroboration-oxidation mechanism, the discovery of which resulted in Herbert C. Brown (at least in part) being awarded the Nobel prize in 1979. This reaction represents a fairly steep learning curve for new students of organic chemistry.