A KINETIC INVESTIGATION OF THE THERMAL REARRANGEMENT OF N-PYRIDINO-2-VINYL-AZIRIDINES.
The first order rate constants of the thermal rearrangement of several N-pyridino-1-vinyl-aziridines into the corresponding pyrido-azepines have been determined.Substituent effects on this isomerization were found to be completely analogous to the related benzenic O-Claisen rearrangement.