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Mumm rearrangement

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The Mumm rearrangement is an organic reaction and a rearrangement reaction.[1][2] It describes a 1,3(O-N) acyl transfer of an acyl imidate or isoimide group to an imide.

The Mumm rearrangement
The Mumm rearrangement

The reaction is of relevance as part of the Ugi reaction.

References

  1. ^ Mumm, O. Ber. Dtsch. Chem. Ges. 1910, 43, 886-893
  2. ^ Preparation of acyclic isoimides and their rearrangement rates to imides J. S. Paul Schwarz J. Org. Chem.; 1972; 37(18) pp 2906 - 2908; doi:10.1021/jo00983a028