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Unusual reactivity of pentafluorobenzyl aromatic ethers under friedel-crafts reaction conditions

L Xu, RW Giese

Index: Xu, Linxiao; Giese, Roger W. Tetrahedron Letters, 1993 , vol. 34, # 24 p. 3829 - 3832

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Abstract

Abstract A pentafluorobenzyl (PFBz) ether of 2, 6-dimethylphenol undergoes a PFBz rearrangement, which appears to be intermolecular, yielding a 2: 3 ratio of meta to para migration. Only ether bond cleavage takes place in a corresponding PFBz ether of 2, 6-