Sartori G., Maggi R. Advances in Friedel-Crafts Acylation Reactions Catalytic and Green Processes

CRC press, 2010. — 197 p.This work incorporates all acid‑catalyzed Friedel–Crafts‑like acylation reactions. Thus, classic Lewis and Brönsted acid types are considered
together with more innovative and advanced multicomponent superacid catalysts, ranging from rare earth triflates or triflimides and their with ionic liquids to metal‑promoted zeolites and zeotypes, clays, polymetal oxides, sulfated zirconia, heteropolyacids, and Nafion. It is indeed evident that the impressive advances in Friedel–Crafts acylation (as well as in other fundamental chemical reactions) observed in the past few decades are mainly due to the enormous interdisciplinary growth in catalyst design and preparation science that “… offers the possibility for selecting a catalyst with the adequate acid strength for almost any particular acid‑catalyzed reaction” (A. Corma, Chem. Rev., 1995, 95, 559–614).
We want to express our hope that this book may give precious and useful information to all researchers involved in aromatic ketone preparation at both academic and industrial levels.Introduction and scope
Stoichiometric acylations.
eneous acylations
Catalytic heterogeneous acylations.
Direct phenol acylation: The Fries rearrangement
Direct phenol acylation
Concluding remarks—future outlook