sweet memo - 1-5-2012 at 09:41
Hello..
could anyone please help me with vilsmeier-haack reaction..!!!
I have a presentation next week about vilsmeier haack reaction.. I hope that anyone can help me with some information about the chemists especially
Erich Haack and how do they discover the reaction???
another thing.. I don't understand the mechanism when vilsmeier reagent react with carbonyl to give B-chloro substituted enaldehyde!!!????
thank you..
ScienceSquirrel - 1-5-2012 at 09:48
Start here, look up the references, do some of your own leg work, away you go 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilsmeier%E2%80%93Haack_reactio...