Kk. Balasubramanian et al., AROMATIC CLAISEN REARRANGEMENTS IN CARBOHYDRATES - STEREOCONTROL OF REARRANGEMENT RATES IN UNSATURATED SUGAR SUBSTRATES, Perkin transactions. 2, (7), 1994, pp. 1399-1401
A remarkable difference is observed in the rates of [3,3]-sigmatropic
rearrangement of aryl -acetyl-2,3-dideoxy-D-erythro-hex-2-enopyranosid
es 1 and 2; the slower reactivity of the alpha-isomers is consistent w
ith AM1 calculated transition state energetics of model systems.