Page 1. Lithium Chloride–Assisted Chemoselective Conversion of Aldehydes into Geminal Diacetates Under Solvent-Free Conditions JW John Bosco, N. Purkayastha, B. Rama Raju, and Anil K. Saikia Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India Abstract ... ketones. Synlett 1998, 849–850. Scheme 2. JW John Bosco et al. 1304 Page 5. ...