Propyl phenyl ethers rearrangement

Capture of phenyl cations with methyl n-propyl ether gives products in which rearrangement has taken place.Initial capture gives the oxonium ion drawn to the left in equation 14. Most of this ion eliminates propene, and deprotonation of the resulting ion affords anisole (PhOR, where R = methyl), which constitutes 75% of the radiochemical yield. Among the other products are isopropyl phenyl ether (roughly 3% of the radiochemical yield, about 3 times more abundant than -propyl... 

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