Host: Division of Chemical Information and Computer Science, The Chemical Society of Japan
Co-host: The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry, The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry, Japan Chemistry Program Exchange, Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education (Approaval)
Pages JP32
We reported in this paper the role of inorganic acid, H2SO4,as a catalyst in Beckmann rearrangement of cyclohexanone oxime into ipsiron-caprolactam. Density functional theory calculation revealed that proton transfer between H2SO4 and cyclohexanone oxime occurred during the rearrangement reaction. H2SO4 act as both a donor and acceptor of proton for cyclohexanone oxime during the rearrangement reaction. This functional of H2SO4 would be one of cause of the acid catalytic activity.