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A systematic calculation of the potential curves or surfaces for 1,2-shift has been realized by using MNDO or other models in MOPAC programs. By referring to the previous author’ viewpoints, the 1,2-shift can be divided into two categories. 1,2-electron-deficient shift is that the electronic configuration of the atom which accepts the migrating group is a cation or an electron-deficient atom, and 1,2-anion shift is the one that the accepted atom of the migration group is a negative ion. In terms of the experimental facts and the calculation of the potential surfaces, in electron-deficient shift such as Beckmann or Baeyer-Villiger rearrangement, the migration occurs through a transition complex formed between the π-bond and the cation or electron-deficient migrating group, but in anion shift such as Wittig or Stevens rearrangement, the electron pair in π-orbit excites at first to π orbit, and then the migration occurs through the new formed complex between the anion migration group and the vacant π orbit. The above mechanisms explain reasonably the intramolecular properties, the configuration retentions of the migration group, and the corresponding migratory aptitudes of the two type 1, 2-shifts. The partial and less important free radical reaction of 1, 2-anion shift has been explained by the π-complex mechanism too.
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Dai, Q., Zhou, Z. & Zhang, D. Mechanism of 1,2-shift through π-complex transition state. Sc. China Ser. B-Chem. 43, 576–586 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02969505
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