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The development of a new, highly efficient, and simple method for masking carbonyl groups as acetals and ketals is described. This methodology relies on the nature of the palladium catalyst to direct the acetalization/ketalization reaction. This new protocol is mild and proceed with a very low catalyst loading at ambient temperatures. The method has been extended to a wide variety of different carbonyl compounds with various steric encumbrances to form the corresponding acetals and ketals in excellent yields.

The theoretical study focused on the possible use of low-molecular-weight mono-as well as multifunctional terminal alkynes as catalysts for two reactions, which are known to be typically acid catalyzed - acetalization and esterification, is presented in this study. Multifunctional terminal alkynes [(diethynylbenzenes, triethynylbenzene, and tetrakis(4-ethynylphenyl)methane]were significantly more active than the monofunctional ones (cyclopropylacetylene, phenylacetylene, 3-cyclohexylprop-1-yne, 1-ethynyl-2-fluorobenzene, 1-ethynyl-4-fluorobenzene, 4-ethynyltoluene, 4-tert-butylphenylacetylene, and 2-ethynyl-α,α,α-trifluorotoluene), this fact can be partly explained by the higher amount of ethynyl groups per alkyne molecule. We confirmed that terminal ethynyl groups in low-molecular-weight alkynes can successfully act as acid catalytic centers for acetalization as well as for esterification.

The Mukaiyama aldol reaction has been used to efficiently install a lateral chain at the C-9 position of the Wieland-Miescher ketone derivative 3 within two steps, representing a shortcut compared to that of the classical sequences. The treatment of the silylated enol ether 8 with a wide range of acetals in the presence of tin tetrachloride led to a the diastereoselective construction of the C-9 quaternary center of 33 new building blocks derived from the Wieland-Miescher ketone derivative 3.

Heterogeneous catalysts based on materials with permanent porosity are of great interest owing to their high specific surface area, easy separation, recovery, and recycling ability. Additionally, porous polymer catalysts (PPCs) allow us to tune catalytic activity by introducing various functional centres. This study reports the preparation of PPCs with a permanent micro/mesoporous texture and a specific surface area SBET of up to 1000 m2 g?1 active in acid-catalyzed reactions, namely aldehyde and ketone acetalization and carboxylic acid esterification. These PPC-type conjugated hyper-cross-linked polyarylacetylene networks were prepared by chain-growth homopolymerization of 1,4-diethynylbenzene, 1,3,5-triethynylbenzene and tetrakis(4-ethynylphenyl)methane. However, only some ethynyl groups of the monomers (from 58 to 80 %) were polymerized into the polyacetylene network segments while the other ethynyl groups remained unreacted. Depending on the number of ethynyl groups per monomer molecule and the covalent structure of the monomer, PPCs were decorated with unreacted ethynyl groups from 3.2 to 6.7 mmol g?1. The hydrogen atoms of the unreacted ethynyl groups served as acid catalytic centres of the aforementioned organic reactions. To the best of our knowledge, this is first study describing the high activity of hydrogen atoms of ethynyl groups in acid-catalyzed reactions.

Propylphosphonic anhydride (T3P), a low toxic peptide coupling agent, has been demonstrated to be an efficient catalyst for the chemoselective acetalization and thioacetalization of aldehydes in the presence of ketones. Cyclic and acyclic acetals of diverse aldehydes were obtained in good to excellent yields at room temperature in the presence of a catalytic amount of T3P.

Iron(III) chloride was found to act as a very efficient catalyst in the acetal-ene reaction involving 1,1-disubstituted alkenes.

Enol ethers of the formula I where R1is an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, araliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic radical which may carry further substituents which do not react with acetylenes or allenes, and the radicals R, independently of one another, are hydrogen or aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, araliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic radicals, which may be bonded to one another to form a ring, and m is 0 or 1, are prepared by reacting an acetal or ketal of the formula II with an acetylene or allene of the formula III or IV where R and R1have the abovementioned meanings, in the gas phase at elevated temperatures in the presence of a zinc- or cadmium- and silicon- and oxygen-containing heterogeneous catalyst.

The acetalisation of aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes is achieved in a basic medium by using catalytic amount of Ti(IV) chloride in MeOH in the presence of NH3 or Et3N. The present protocol shows many advantages over the well known base or acid catalysis: in fact, in contrast to base-promoted acetalisation, aldehydes with electron-rich carbonyl groups react easily, enolizable aldehydes do not undergo aldol condensation and, in contrast to acid-catalysis, migration of the double bond does not occur in the preparation of α,β-unsaturated acetals.

AlFe-pillared montmorillonite is an efficient catalyst for acetals preparation in CH2Cl2 at room temperature.