In this article, dedicated to Professor Fred McLafferty, I wish to recollect early observations with regard to the rearrangement named after him for 1-nitropropane and the methyl ester of 纬-nitrobutyric acid. This rearrangement occurs for both cases clearly in a stepwise fashion, although for ...
carbonyl compounds, these compounds undergo a specific rearrangement due to the cleavage of multiple bonds, including the bonds at alpha and gamma positions. This reaction is known as the McLafferty rearrangement. This rearrangement is applied in structural elucidation using mass spectroscopy as the ...
Mechanistically, the McLafferty rearrangement can be either concerted with "simultaneous hydrogen transfer and β-cleavage," or stepwise with the "initial hydrogen transfer being followed by β-cleavage". This rearrangement is useful in structural elucidation using mass spectroscopy as the tool. Keywords...
ChemInform Abstract: SPECTROSCOPY OF RADICAL CATIONS. THE MCLAFFERTY REARRANGEMENT PRODUCT IN FRAGMENTATION OF N〣UTYLBENZENE AND 2㏄HENYLETHANOL IONSdoi:10.1002/chin.197734135intermediates (and their reactions)R. C. DUNBARR. KLEINJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd...