Chugaev elimination

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The Chugaev elimination is a chemical reaction that involves the elimination of water from alcohols to produce alkenes. The intermediate is a xanthate. It is named for its discoverer, the Russian chemist Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev.

In the first step, a potassium xanthate is formed out of the alkoxide and carbon disulfide (CS₂). With iodomethane, it is transformed into a xanthate.

At about 200 °C, the alkene is formed by a syn-elimination. In a 6-membered cyclic transition state the hydrogen atom is moved from the β-C-atom to the sulfur. The side product decomposes to carbonyl sulfide (OCS) and methanethiol.

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