Tetrahedron Letters

Highly efficient heterogeneous acetalization of carbonyl compounds catalyzed by a titanium cation-exchanged montmorillonite

T Kawabata, T Mizugaki, K Ebitani, K Kaneda

Index: Kawabata, Tomonori; Mizugaki, Tomoo; Ebitani, Kohki; Kaneda, Kiyotomi Tetrahedron Letters, 2001 , vol. 42, # 47 p. 8329 - 8332

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Abstract

The titanium cation-exchanged montmorillonite efficiently catalyzed the selective acetalization of various carbonyl compounds as a recyclable solid acid. This heterogeneous catalyst has an advantage of a strikingly simple workup procedure over conventional homogeneous acids.