Issue 9, 2008
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Green Chemistry

Highly atom efficient aluminium triflate catalysed acetal formation†

D. Bradley G. Williams*a  and  Michelle C. Lawtona  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, South Africa
E-mail: bwilliams@uj.ac.za
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Abstract

Aromatic and aliphatic acetals are formed in excellent yields under solventless conditions at room temperature within 30 minutes by treating aldehydes and ketones with 0.5 mol% Al(OTf)3 as a recyclable catalyst in the presence of only 1.2 equivalents of an orthoester as reagent.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B805748F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Apr 2008
Accepted
28 Jul 2008
First published
05 Aug 2008

Green Chem., 2008,10, 914-917

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