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Media controlled photo-Favorskii type rearrangement of α-chloro acetophenones: Synthesis of phenylacetic acids

DD Dhavale, VP Mali, SG Sudrik, HR Sonawane

Index: Dhavale, Dilip D.; Mali, Vasant P.; Sudrik, Surendra G.; Sonawane, Harikisan R. Tetrahedron, 1997 , vol. 53, # 49 p. 16789 - 16794

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Abstract

Photolysis of substituted α-chloro acetophenones has been studied in different solvent systems wherein 1, 2-aryl migration is found to be media controlled. Effect of substituents on the migratory aptitude and a direct access to phenylacetic acids, in practical yields, has been described.