Synthesis of phenoxyacetone from phenol

How can [phenoxyacetone](http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/aldrich/152021?lang=en&region=US) 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!




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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.


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