During more than a century, the Lossen rearrangement was supposed to occur exclusively in the presence of stochiometric amount of activating reagents. Very recently, it was demonstrated that the Lossen rearrangement can take place directly from free hydroxamic acids offering a renewal of interest for this reaction.
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