Bodroux-Chichibabin Aldehyde Synthesis

F. Bodroux, Compt. Rend. 138, 92 (1904); A. E. Chichibabin, Ber. 37, 186, 850 (1904).

Formation of aldehydes by treatment of orthoformates with Grignard reagents:

L. I. Smith et al., J. Org. Chem. 6, 437, 489 (1941); H. W. Post, The Chemistry of the Aliphatic Orthoesters (New York, 1943) p 96; H. Meerwein, Houben-Weyl 6/3, 243 (1965); R. H. DeWolfe, Carboxylic Orthoacid Derivatives (Academic Press, New York, 1970) p 224. Cf. Bouveault Aldehyde Synthesis.