The fries rearrangement of 1-naphthyl ac
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N. M. Cullinane; V. V. Bailey-Wood
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Article
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2010
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Elsevier Science
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English
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## Abstract The rearrangement of 1‐naphthyl acetate in nitrobenzene solution, catalysed by aluminium chloride, to give 2‐ and 4‐acetylnaphthol, appears to be intramolecular in nature. A mechanism to account for the experimental results is proposed. While the main product is the __p__‐hydroxy‐ketone