Ring Contraction Reactions
Examples of ring contraction reactions are:
- the Favorskii rearrangement
- the Demjanov rearrangement
- Ring contractions of cyclic ketones and cycloalkenes brought about by hypervalent iodine for example the reaction of cyclohexene with iodosobenzene and boron trifluoride to cyclopentanecarbaldehyde:
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