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Newman–Kwart rearrangement

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Transformation of phenol to the corresponding thiophenol, a variant of the Smiles reaction.

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Li, J.J. (2014). Newman–Kwart rearrangement. In: Name Reactions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03979-4_192

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