Depto. Química Orgánica

FRIES REARRANGEMENT

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15/07/2017
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The Fries rearrangement, named for the German chemist Karl Theophil Fries, is a reaction of a phenolic ester to a hydroxy aryl ketone by catalysis of Lewis acids. Believe it or not, the exact mechanism of this reaction is still unknown.
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