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Pritish Chakraborty ·

Acid catalysed enolisation?

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Pritish Chakraborty ·

It's Claisen rearrangement...as one ortho position is blocked the other will be taken.

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Pritish Chakraborty ·

Nope..it's not condensation at all. It's a rearrangement of allyl phenyl ether to an alpha-beta unsaturated ketone, but because of phenyl group it is accompanied by re-aromatisation.

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