Chromium (II) salt mediated reductive transposition of an ester acyl group in ortho-O-acyl benzylic bromides: a ready access to unmasked ortho-hydroxybenzyl …

B Ledoussal, A Gorgues, A Le Coq

Index: Ledoussal, Benoit; Gorgues, Alain; Coq, Andre Le Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1986 , # 2 p. 171 - 172

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Abstract

The mono-σ-bonded organochromium (III) complexes (A) derived from (1) rearrange internally into (B) through an acyl ester group transposition, selected experimental conditions allowing either a good access to the unmasked ortho-hydroxybenzyl ketones (2) or a new route to the 2-substituted benzo [b] furans (3).