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Summary Fragmentation of a Ketone (alpha-cleavage and mclafferty rearrangement)

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Step by step mechanism example of an alpha cleavage and clatter rearrangement of a ketone.

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Fragmentation of Ketone (x-cleavage + McLafferty Rearrangement)
1)
X-Cleavage
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The Ketone will be hit with beam of electrons and the most electron to be knocked out
a
, likely will be
of the
one
high-energy ,
non-bonding electrons off of
oxygen .




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resonance stabilized


The radical electron will form half of a triple bond the other half of the triple bond will be formed by
,

the bond between the Carbony carbon and Alpha (a) Carbon. This will form radical
breaking the a

Onto the alpha carbon .


This will form triple bond to the and three carbon radical
a on
oxygen , a .




2) McLafferty Rearrangement
Only possible if there is at least 3 carbons on either side of the Ketone .




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:O : .




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간 니
K
· It
+
B 3
B
.



α α

resonance stabilized
cation

The radical form bond between
on the
Oxygen will half the it and
Hydrogen , the other half of
this bond will some from the U-H bond .
The other electron of this bond will be used to

form a pibond between U and B
. The other half of this pibond comes from the bond
between B other half of the X-B bond radical
breaking X and .
The forms a on x-carbon .




The result is unusual . Usually we get a cation and a radical ,
but this result is both the cation

and the radical .
This is the result of the McLafferty Rearrangement.

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