Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wagner-meerwein rearrangement

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wag-n-er-meer-wein re-ar-range-ment
IPA

39

Scrabble Score

27

Letters

8

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of carbocation 1,2-rearrangement reactions in which a hydrogen, alkyl or aryl group migrates from one carbon to a neighbouring carbon.

Etymology

Named after the Russian chemist Georg Wagner (Yegor Yegorovich Vagner), and Hans Meerwein.

Inflected Forms

Wagner-Meerwein rearrangements (plural)

Questions

What does wagner-meerwein rearrangement mean?: Any of a class of carbocation 1,2-rearrangement reactions in which a hydrogen, alkyl or aryl group migrates from one carbon to a neighbouring carbon.
Where does wagner-meerwein rearrangement come from?: Named after the Russian chemist Georg Wagner (Yegor Yegorovich Vagner), and Hans Meerwein.

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