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title: "Favorskii rearrangement Template – Chemistry Diagram | MolDraw"
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description: "Favorskii rearrangement template: 2-Chlorocyclohexanone forms an enolate on the other α-carbon, closes to a cyclopropanone, and methoxide opens it to methyl…"
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2-Chlorocyclohexanone forms an enolate on the other α-carbon, closes to a cyclopropanone, and methoxide opens it to methyl cyclopentanecarboxylate.

## Mechanism step by step

An α-halo ketone in base contracts through a cyclopropanone

1. **Enolate** – The α′-H (away from Cl) is removed
2. **Cyclopropanone** – Intramolecular SN2 displaces chloride
3. **Methoxide adds** – Attack on the strained C=O
4. **Ring opening** – The three-membered ring breaks: a carbanion
5. **Protonation** – Methanol gives the ester

## Key points

- Cyclic α-halo ketones contract by one carbon.
- Hydroxide gives the acid, alkoxides the ester, amines the amide.
- The cyclopropanone opens to give the more stable carbanion.
- Without an α′-H, a semibenzilic (quasi-Favorskii) route operates.

Drawn with 113 atoms, 18 arrows, 7 shapes – every one editable in MolDraw.

## Sources

- [Kürti & Czakó, Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis, Elsevier 2005](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780124297852) Textbook
- [Clayden, Greeves & Warren, Organic Chemistry, 2nd ed., OUP 2012](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780199270293) Textbook

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