The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Base-assisted carbon-Claisen rearrangement of 4-phenyl-1-butene

M Newcomb, RS Vieta

Index: Newcomb, Martin; Vieta, Rene S. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1980 , vol. 45, # 23 p. 4793 - 4795

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Abstract

The [3, 3] sigmatropic rearrangements of all carbon systems in which one unsaturated site is constrained within an aromatic ring are poorly understood despite the fact that such rearrangements are related to both the Cope and Claisen rearrangements. No conversion of 4-phenyl-lbutene (1) to 3-(o-tolyl) propene (2) was observed in the