M. Ghiaci et Gh. Imanzadeh, A FACILE BECKMANN REARRANGEMENT OF OXIMES WITH ALCL3 IN THE SOLID-STATE, Synthetic communications, 28(12), 1998, pp. 2275-2280
A facile and efficient synthetic procedure, for Beckmann rearrangement
of oximes with AlCl3 in the absence of solvent is developed. We have
been able to convert cyclohexanone oxime to epsilon-caprolactam in a q
uantitative yield.