Kinetics and mechanism of the Beckmann rearrangement of alicyclic ketoximes under the catalytic action of sulphuric acid and oleum

CONTENTS
I. Introduction 51
II. Some properties of concentrated aqueous solutions of sulphuric acid 52
III. Some information about the mechanism of ionisation of alicyclic ketoximes in aqueous solutions of strong acids 52
IV. Rate constants of the Beckmann rearrangement of alicyclic ketoximes 53
V. Mechanism of the Beckmann rearrangement of oximes 56
VI. Temperature dependence of the rate constants of the Beckmann rearrangement of alicyclic ketoximes in sulphuric acid and in oleum 62