In the production of an alicyclic aldehyde, a starting aromatic aldehyde is converted into an aromatic acetal for protecting the formyl group. The aromatic ring of the aromatic acetal is then hydrogenated to convert the aromatic acetal into an alicyclic acetal, which is then hydrolyzed to cleave the acetal protecting group to obtain the aimed alicyclic aldehyde.

A process for the oxidation of alkylaromatic compounds is provided. The process comprises oxidizing a substrate alkylaromatic compound with a peroxygen compound in the presence of a source of cerium (III) or (IV), a source of bromide and a carboxylic acid or anhydride solvent. Preferably, the source of cerium is cerium (III) acetate, the source of bromide is sodium bromide and the solvent is acetic or propionic acid. The process is particularly suited to the selective oxidation of methylaromatic...

There is disclosed a process for the production of 1-methylcyclopropanecarboxaldehyde of the formula ##STR1## comprising treating 4-chloro-2-methyl-butanal of the formula ##STR2## at a temperature between -40.degree. and +7.degree. C. in an inert solvent with a 1.0 to 10.0 fold molar amount of a strong, non-nucleophilic base.

The method uses a starting material which is a liquid mixture including a formaldehyde proportion between 48 to 55% by weight, a methanol proportion between 20 and 30% by weight and a water proportion between 32 and 15 wt %; the liquid mixture is obtained from a tapping which is effected from a plant for the continuous preparation of urea-formaldehyde resins and glues, immediately after having subjected the methanol to catalytic oxidation via air, condensation of the gases evolving from said cat...

A process for preparing cyclocitral by expoxidizing a pyronene.

The cycloaliphatic aldehydes of formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.0, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent independently a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl from C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 and X stands for a group of formula ##STR2## wherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 represent independenly a lower alkyl radical from C.sub.1 to C.sub.3 and R.sup.5 represents a lower alkyl radical or hydrogen, provided that R.sup.1, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 do not represent simulataneously a methyl radical whenever R.sup.0 and R.sup.2 represent e...

Formylcyclopropane (I) ##STR1## is prepared by cyclization of 4-chlorobutanal by means of an aqueous mineral base by a method in which the reaction is carried out at 50.degree.-150.degree. C. in a liquid two-phase system consisting of an aqueous phase and a water-immiscible organic phase, and the formylcyclopropane is removed continuously from the reaction mixture.

The invention relates to novel aldolase-inhibiting compounds that can be advantageously used as medicaments (in therapeutic doses), especially for treating certain cancers, due to the inhibition efficacy thereof. An inventive compound corresponds to general formula (I) wherein the aldehyde group (--CHO) and the phenol group (--OH) are linked to two carbon atoms adjacent to the same aromatic chain, i.e., the first aromatic chain, and R is a phosphate group or a phosphate group mimetic linked to a...

A method of oxidizing primary and secondary alcohols to an aldehyde or ketone using a fluorous sulfoxide or a fluorous sulfide is disclosed. The method includes regenerating and recycling the fluorous sulfoxide.

A process for producing aromatic aldehydes by carbonylation of an arene in the presence of triflic acid catalyst is described by reacting an arene, such as toluene, with carbon monoxide in the presence of triflic acid (as a catalyst), for a reaction time less than 90 minutes, at a carbon monoxide partial pressure of about 700-2000 psig, at a temperature of from about 0-50.degree. C. to produce an aromatic aldehyde such as tolualdehyde and by-products, the by-products being less than 5% by weight...