Mild heating of the pyrroloindole (2) causes intramolecular migration of the benzyl group from oxygen to ring carbon to give the dienone (3) in which the benzene aromaticity has unexpectedly been destroyed.
R. E. Bolton, C. J. Moody and C. W. Rees, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1989, 2136 DOI: 10.1039/P19890002136
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