The Favorskii reaction is an organic chemistry reaction between an alkyne and a carbonyl group, under basic conditions. The reaction was discovered in the early 1900s by the Russian chemist Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii.[1]
When the carbonyl is an aldehyde (R"=H), a rearrangement can occur to generate enone, although the secondary propargylic alcohol can be isolated in some cases.[2] When this rearrangement is catalyzed by an acid, it is called Meyer–Schuster rearrangement. When the base is sodium metal the reaction is called Nef synthesis.
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