Synthesis of phenoxyacetone from phenol How can phenoxyacetone be synthesized from phenol?

My Attempt:

We would first need to deprotonate phenol by addition of NaH in THF and then add bromopropene.

I'm not quite sure where I would go from here. Any help would be much appreciated!
Your suggested method seems excessively complicated. Substitution of chloroacetone with phenol under basic conditions should give O-alkylation in reasonably good yield. The phenol will be deprotonated and the nucleophilic phenoxide ion will then undergo an $S_N2$ reaction with the primary alkyl chloride.