Baker-Venkataraman Transformation

W.Baker,J.Chem.Soc.1933,1381
H.S. Mahal, K. Venkataraman, J. Chem.Soc. 1934,1767
Wheeler et al Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. 24,291(1948)
Allis, Weight, J.Chem.Soc. 1952, 3826
Schmid, Banholzer, Helv. Chim, Acta 37,1706(1954)
Reviews: Venkataraman in Zechmeister, Progress in the
Chemistry of Organic Natural Products, vol. 17,p2(1959)
Gripenberg in Geissman, Ed., The Chemistry of Flavonoid
Compounds,p410(New York, 1962)
Also see Allan-Robinson Reaction