Petroleum Chemistry, Vol.45, No.4, 275-278, 2005
Kinetics and mechanism of the liquid-phase rearrangement of 2-methyl-2,3-epoxybutane in the presence of a magnesium bromide complex
The mechanism of intramolecular rearrangement of epoxides in the presence of the MgBr(2)center dot 2H(2)O center dot 4DMF catalytic complex was proposed on the basis of a kinetic study of the liquid-phase isomerization of 2-methyl-2,3-epoxybutane and data on the influence of the ligand environment of the catalyst, solvent nature, and the epoxide structure.