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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Sep 15;132(36):12554–12555. doi: 10.1021/ja106101f

Table 2.

C-O bond cleavage of various 2-aryloxy-1-arylethanols

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Substrate Ar Ar′ Yield (%)a
2a C6H5 C6H5 98
2b C6H5 2-(CH3O)-C6H4 88
2c C6H5 2,6-(CH3O)2-C6H3 62
2d 4-(CH3O)-C6H4 C6H5 98
2e 3,4-(CH3O) -C6H3 2-(CH3O)-C6H4 89
a

Average isolated yield of the corresponding ketone based on two duplicate experiments.