Pinacol rearrangement

The pinacol–pinacolone rearrangement is a method for converting a 1,2-diol to a carbonyl compound in organic chemistry. The 1,2-rearrangement takes place under acidic conditions. The name of the rearrangement reaction comes from the rearrangement of pinacol to pinacolone.[1]

This reaction was first described by Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (of Fittig reaction fame) in 1860.[2]

  1. ^ Clayden, Jonathan; Greeves, Nick; Warren, Stuart (2012). Organic chemistry (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 945. ISBN 978-0-19-927029-3.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1860). "Über einige Derivate des Acetons". Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. 114 (1): 54–63. doi:10.1002/jlac.18601140107.
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