Carbanion Rearrangements

3 reactions in this chapter:

Aldol condensation
Favorskii rearrangement
Wittig Rearrangement
3- Wittig Rearrangement
A Wittig rearrangement is a categorization of chemical reactions in
organic chemistry and consists of a 1,2-rearrangement of an ether with
an alkyllithium compound.
The reaction is named for Nobel Prize winning chemist Georg Wittig.
Mechanism
of Reaction