English Explanatory Dictionary

Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a class of carbocation 1,2-rearrangement reactions in which a hydrogen, alkyl or aryl group migrates from one carbon to a neighbouring carbon.

Word forms

Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement Wagner-Meerwein rearrangements

Etymology

Named after the Russian chemist Georg Wagner (Yegor Yegorovich Vagner), and Hans Meerwein.

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