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Why is the forward reaction favoured in the Claisen rearrangement if sigmatropic reactions are reversible? A carbonyl group results in the product (compare keto-enol stability).The [3,3] sigmatropic rearrangement can be further enhanced by having an oxygen outside the ring. This is employed in the Ireland-Claisen rearrangement, where a silyloxy group is included in the Claisen rearrangement. This has wide applications synthetically, since the silyloxy group can be easily hydrolysed, overall creating a new C-C bond in the product.
Richard Windsor – Undergraduate Final Year Project 2008
Y. Chai, S. Hong, H. A. Lindsay, C. McFarland and M. C. McIntosh, Tetrahedron, 2002, 58, 2905–2928.
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