Phenyl isobutyrate has been found to undergo a normal Friesrearrangement with anhydrous aluminum chloride at 140 °C. to give a mixture of 2-hydroxy-(40%) and 4-hydroxy-isobutyrophenone (11%). When the reaction was carried out in nitrobenzene solution at room temperature the 4-isomer was formed in 86% yield. Methylation of these compounds furnished 2- and 4-methoxy-isobutyrophenone, identical with