Cell suspensions of Serratia marcescens catalyzed the oxidation of aromatic aldehydes into the corresponding acids in high yield under mild conditions.

Aromatic aldehydes have been converted into the corresponding carbamoyl azides using iodine azide. These reactions have been performed safely under continuous flow reaction conditions in microreactors.

Tryptophan was shown to be able to catalyze direct aldol reactions between various cyclic ketones and aromatic aldehydes in water with high enantioselectivity.

Due to the importance and various applications of nitriles especially in medicinal productions, a new method for conversion of aldehydes to nitriles has been presented. Several nitrile-containing aromatic compounds were synthesized through the treatment of various aldehydes and hydroxylamine hydrochloride as nucleophile in the presence of ferric hydrogen sulfate as a heterogeneous, efficient, a...

3(2)-Naphthofuranone (1) was condensed in the presence of Al2O3-KF with aromatic aldehydes (4) to give arylidenenaphthofuranones (5a-f) without solvent under focused microwave irradiation.

Aromatic aldehydes and ketones as well as aromatic epoxides are selectively reduced to the corresponding alcohols under mild conditions using conventional hydrogen in the presence of Pd(0)EnCat 30NP catalyst. The reactions were performed at room temperature during 16 hours with high to excellent conversions of the corresponding products.

A one pot domino protocol for an efficient synthesis of 7-arylbenzo[c]acridine-5,6-diones, with a novel nucleus, has been developed by reacting 2-hydroxynaphthalene-1,4-dione, aromatic aldehydes and aromatic amines using environmentally benevolent p-toluene sulphonic acid as a catalyst. An exciting feature of this communication is the reaction mechanism that depends on the reaction solvent.

A convenient and efficient procedure for the synthesis of 14-aryl or alkyl-14H-dibenzo[a,j]xanthenes by condensation of 2-naphthol and aldehydes in the presence of Methylimidazolium hydrogensulfate, as a Brönsted acidic ionic liquid ([Hmim]HSO4), is described. Both aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes reacted easily to afford the corresponding 14-aryl or alkyl-14H-dibenzo[a,j]xanthenes in good yiel...

a water soluble, bronsted acid, 5-sulfosalicylic acid as an efficient organocatalyst was used for the synthesis of physiologically active 2-substituted benzimidazole derivatives from o-phenylenediamine and aromatic aldehydes in ethanol at reflux condition. cost-effectiveness, use of non-hazardous solvents, metal free and commercially available catalyst, single-step, environmentally friendly gre...

Trichloroacetic Acid (TCA) was used as an efficient catalyst for the synthesis of highly functionalized piperidines via a one-pot five-component reaction of aromatic amines, aromatic aldehydes and β-keto esters in MeOH at room temperature. The remarkable advantages offered by this method are good yields, simple procedure, short reaction times, no need to column chromatography and an easy wo...