Cope Rearrangement.
A and B usually are COOH, CN or C6H5
A. C. Cope et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 62, 441 (1940) 63,1843,1852(1941) 66,1684(1944)
69,1893(1947)71,1589,3423 (1949)72, 59 (1950)
P. D. Bartlett in H. Gilman, Organic Chemistry, vol. 3 (John Wiley & Son, New York, 1953) p 73
J. Hinc, Physical Organic Chemistry (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1962) p 505
W. von E. Doering and W. R. Roth, Tetrahedron 18, 67 (1962)
S. J. Rhoads in P. de Mayo, Molecular Rearrangements, vol. I (New York, 1963), p 684
J. A. Berson and M. Jones, Jr., J. Am. em. Soc. 86, 5017, 5019 (1964)
Also see Claisen Rearrangement