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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Payne rearrangement is the isomerization, under basic conditions, of 2,3-epoxy alcohols to isomeric 2,3-epoxy alcohols with inversion of configuration. Aza- and thia-Payne rearrangements of aziridines and thiiraniums, respectively, are also known.