Oxidative 1, 2-aryl migration of alky aryl ketones (2, 5, and 8) to 2-arylalkanoates (3, 6, and 9) was effected by using diacetoxyphenyliodine (1). The migration was successfully applied to the preparation of the antiinflammatory agents ibuprofen (15) and clidanac (17).
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Tamura et al. (1985) studied this question.