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Named after the Russian chemist Georg Wagner (Yegor Yegorovich Vagner), and Hans Meerwein.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement
Today it means: Any of a class of carbocation 1,2-rearrangement reactions in which a hydrogen, alkyl or aryl group migrates from one carbon to a neighbouring carbon. Full definition →