A theoretical account for stereoselective e2 reactions

✍ Scribed by Kenichi Fukui; Hiroshi Fujimoto

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1965
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 182 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)71091-4

✦ Synopsis

ONE of the conspicuous, stereoselective phenomena in organic reactions is the E2 beta-elimination, in which the leaving nucleophilic group prefers to be in the position trans to the proton being extracted by the attacking base'.

To the best of our knowledge no satisfactory explanation has been given.