Abstract
IT has been shown previously1 that when benzyl phenyl ether is heated in quinoline at about 250°, the normal rearrangement of the ether to o- and p-benzyl phenols is accompanied by the formation of benzyl-quinolinos and of toluene. It is now found that hydroxyphenyl quinolines are also products of this reaction, and that it is possible, by a careful control of the experimental conditions, to increase very considerably the yields of benzylquinolines and hydroxyphenyl quinolines at the expense of the normal products of the rearrangement.
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HICKINBOTTOM, W. Demonstration of the Participation of Free Radicals in the Rearrangement of Benzyl Phenyl Ether. Nature 143, 520 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143520b0
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