Talk:Sommelet–Hauser rearrangement
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The text states the benzylic proton to be the acidic one, however in the scheme one of the methylene-groups is deprotonated. This is logic as otherwise the rearrangement would not occur. So is this only a matter of an equlibrium-reaction?