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Smiles rearrangementThe Smiles rearrangement is an organic reaction and a rearrangement reaction. [1] It is an intramolecular nucleophilic aromatic substitution of the type: Additional recommended knowledgewhere X in the arene compound can be a sulfone, a sulfide, an ether or any substituent capable of dislodging from the arene carrying a negative charge. The terminal functional group in the chain end Y is able to act as a strong nucleophile for instance an alcohol, amine or thiol. As in other nucleophilic aromatic substitutions the arene requires activation by an electron-withdrawing group preferably in the aromatic ortho position. In one modification called the Truce-Smiles rearrangement the incoming nucleophile is sufficiently strong that the arene does not require this additional activation, for example when the nucleophile is an organolithium. This reaction is exemplified by the conversion of an aryl sulfone into an sulfinic acid by action of n-butyllithium: [2] This particular reaction requires the interaction of the alkyllithium group ortho to the sulfone group akin a directed ortho metalation. A conceptually related reaction is the Chapman rearrangement. References
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