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In the couse of our investigations of liquid crystals as solvents, we wish to report some kinetic data for the Claisen rearrangement. The thermal rearrangement of allyl phenyl ethers (1) proceeds by an intramolecular path to give an ortho-dienone (II) which rapidly enolizes to 2-allylphenols (III).
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