Aluminium chloride-potassium iodide-acetonitrile system: A mild reagent system for aromatic claisen rearrangement at ambient temperature

Claisen rearrangement is used as the standard methods for the generation of complex organic substance. It is one of the well-known methods for the introduction of carbon-carbon bond. We have developed a protocol using allyl aryl ether as a substrate and AlCl3-KI as a mild reagent system and acetonitrile (CH3CN) is taken as solvent at ambient temperature. The reagent system presented in this current work is found to be appropriate for Claisen rearrangement of several aromatic alcohols with excellent yields.