Synthesis and rearrangement of phenyl ethers of 5,6-dihydropyrans

4-Methyl-5-phenoxy-5,6-dihydropyrans were synthesized by the reaction of 3,4-dibromo-4-methyltetrahydropyran with a number of substituted phenols. The products are converted to the corresponding phenols under the conditions of the Claisen rearrangement.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 315–317, March, 1985.