Morpholinone-and piperidinone-derived triazolium salts are shown to catalyze highly chemoselective cross-benzoin reactions between aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes. The reaction scope includes ortho-, meta-, and para-substituted benzaldehyde derivatives with a range of electron-donating and-withdrawing groups as well as branched and unbranched aliphatic aldehydes. Catalytic loadings as low as 5 mol% give excellent yields in these ...
[Baldwin, Jack E.; Adlington, Robert M.; Bottaro, Jeffrey C.; Kolhe, Jayant N.; Perry, Matthew W. D.; Jain, Ashok U. Tetrahedron, 1986 , vol. 42, # 15 p. 4223 - 4234]