2,3-Dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone as a mild and efficient catalyst for the deprotection of acetals
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 14,p. 979-980
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39920000979
Abstract
In the presence of a catalytic amount of 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone (DDQ), acetals are readily hydrolysed to the corresponding aldehydes or ketones in aqueous acetonitrile under neutral conditions.Keywords
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