Sg. Hegde et al., AROMATIZATION OF CYCLOHEXENONES WITH IODINE SODIUM ALKOXIDE - A REGIOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF 2-IODOPHENOLS/, Tetrahedron letters, 36(46), 1995, pp. 8395-8398
Aromatizations of a wide variety of easily accessible 2-cyclohexenone-
4-carboxylates with iodine and sodium ethoxide give the corresponding
2-iodophenols in good yield and high regioselectivity.