A simple one-step synthesis of phenyl ethers from phenyl acetates

SK Banerjee, BD Gupta, K Singh

Index: Banerjee, Sunil K.; Gupta, Bishan D.; Singh, Kuber Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1982 , # 14 p. 815 - 816

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Abstract

Phenyl acetates when refluxed with alkyl halides in acetone solution in the presence of a crown ether and anhydrous potassium carbonate undergo alkylation yielding phenyi ethers. ... In the course of our work on the synthesis of coumarins we were faced with the problem of clean deacetylation of (1; R = Ac) or (2; R = Ac)' to the corresponding phenol for subsequent prenylation. Hydrolysis with aqueous-methanolic sodium carbonate followed by acidification gave a number of ...