There is a renewed interest in designing solid acid catalysts particularly due to the significance of Lewis acid catalyzed processes such as Friedel-Crafts acylation and alkylation and cellulose hydrolysis for the development of sustainable chemistry. This paper reports a new focus point on the properties of supported CuO on silica, a material that up to now has been considered only as the prec...

An efficient access to the tetracyclic-fused quinoline systems, 12-phenylbenzo[6,7]oxepino[3,4-b]quinolin-13(6H)-one derivatives 4a-l, is described, involving the intramolecular Friedel-Crafts acylation reaction of 2-(phenoxymethyl)-4-phenylquinoline-3-carboxylic acid derivatives 3a-l aided by the treatment with PPA (polyphosphoric acid) or Eaton's reagent. The required starting compound (2) wa...

The acylation reaction occupies a central role in biochemistry and organic synthesis. On the one hand, it is by this very reaction that amino acids successively assemble to form peptides and proteins, and on the other hand it is a major synthetic method encompassing esterification, amidation, Friedel–Crafts reaction andmanyother processes routinely used both at the laboratory and the industrial...

Green Friedel-Crafts acylation reactions belong to the most desired transformations in organic chemistry. The resulting ketones constitute important intermediates, building blocks, and functional molecules in organic synthesis as well as for the chemical industry. Over the past 60 years, advances in this topic have focused on how to make this reaction more economically and environmentally frien...

A series of silyl, germyl and alkyl substituted trifluoroacetylfurans has been synthesized under Friedel-Crafts electrophilic acylation conditions. Biological investigations have demonstrated that germyl derivatives of trifluoroacetylfuran are more toxic than the silicon analogues. 5-Triethylgermyl-2- trifluoroacetylfuran was the most toxic compound (CD(nabla), 11.2 mg kg(-1), i.p. for white mi...

A series of aromatic hydrocarbons were investigated so as to compare the reactivity of corannulene with planar aromatic hydrocarbons. Corannulene was found to be more reactive than benzene, naphthalene and triphenylene to Friedel-Crafts acylation whilst electrophilic aromatic bromination was also used to confirm that triphenylene was less reactive than corannulene and that pyrene, perylene and ...