A computational study of the aza-Cope rearrangement leading to angularly substituted
1-azabicyclic ring systems is presented. The calculations estimate the probability
of the proton transfer between reaction intermediates and protic solvents, explain
the experimentally observed reaction selectivity, and suggest new potentially more
efficient systems for further in vitro and in silico investigations.
Key words
aza-Cope rearrangement - DFT - reaction mechanisms - sigmatropic rearrangements -
proton transfer -
cis–trans selectivity