SHORTPAPER	Synthesis 2004: 831-833   DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-816000
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Copper(II) Tetrafluoroborate-Catalyzed Formation of Aldehyde-1,1-di­acetates
Asit K. Chakraborti*, Ramasamy Thilagavathi, Raj Kumar
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Sector 67, S. A. S. Nagar, Punjab - 160062, India Fax: +91(172)2214692; e-Mail: akchakraborti@niper.ac.in;
Received 21 January 2004

Abstract

Aldehyde 1,1-diacetates are formed in excellent yields from aldehydes and acetic anhydride under solvent-free conditions at room temperature in short times in the presence of a catalytic amount of copper(II) tetrafluoroborate hydrate.

Keywords

1,1-diacetates - copper compounds - catalysis - solvent-free reactions