Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20947
Title: Development of the HERON Reaction: A Historical Account
Contributor(s): Glover, Stephen  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1071/ch16683
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20947
Abstract: This account describes the discovery and development of the HERON reaction, a reaction with special connection to the Heron Island Conferences on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules. This modern 'named' reaction describes an unusual rearrangement of bisheteroatom-substituted amides RCON(X)(Y) whereby the more electron deficient group, X, migrates from nitrogen to the carbonyl carbon giving an acyl derivative, RC(O)X, and Y-stabilised nitrenes. In it, the origins, mechanistic elucidation, and theoretical validation are described in more or less chronological order. Along that time line we introduce the concepts of 'anomeric amides', 'amidicity' in anomeric amides, and their role in the HERON reaction. All known versions of the reaction that have since been discovered are outlined and a basic understanding of the relative roles of reduced resonance and the anomeric driving force, both functions of the heteroatom substituents at the amide nitrogen, are quantified.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Australian Journal of Chemistry, 70(4), p. 344-361
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Place of Publication: Australia
ISSN: 1445-0038
0004-9425
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 030505 Physical Organic Chemistry
030799 Theoretical and Computational Chemistry not elsewhere classified
030503 Organic Chemical Synthesis
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 340505 Physical organic chemistry
340503 Organic chemical synthesis
340799 Theoretical and computational chemistry not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970103 Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280105 Expanding knowledge in the chemical sciences
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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