The Claisen rearrangement and its applications to organic synthesis have been studied for a long time.l In recent years, this rearrangement has been applied in stereocontrolled natural product synthesis2 and asymmetric i n d ~ c t i o n . ~ The term "Claisen rearrangement", which originally denoted the rearrangement of allyl aryl ethers to 0or p-allylphenols, has now been extended to analogous ...