Eschenmoser fragmentation

noun

Etymology

Named after the Swiss chemist Albert Eschenmoser, who devised it in collaboration with an industrial research group.

Definitions

  1. The chemical reaction of α,β-epoxyketones with aryl sulfonylhydrazines to give alkynes…

    The chemical reaction of α,β-epoxyketones with aryl sulfonylhydrazines to give alkynes and carbonyl compounds.

The neighborhood

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