A facile dialkyl ether cleavage and rearrangement under mildly basic conditions during the Williamson synthesis with β-cyclodextrin

Abstract

Alkyl (9,10-dicyanoanthracenyl-2-methyl) ethers undergo facile transetherification with a variety of alkoxides.

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