“…Many procedures are available in the literature for preparing thioacetals [ 3 ], but their deprotection to the parent carbonyl compounds is not always an easy process. In recent years various hydrolytic [ 4 ] or oxidative methods [ 5 , 6 ] have been reported for dethioacetalizations and in the last two decades or so numerous reagent combinations have been documented for deprotection of thioacetals, including clay supported ammonium ion [ 7 ], ferric or cupric nitrates [ 8 ], zirconium sulfonyl phosphonate [ 9 ], oxides of nitrogen [ 10 ], air/bismuth(III) nitrate [ 11 ], Fe(phen) 3 (PF 6 ) 3 [ 12 ], DDQ [ 13 ], SeO 2 /AcOH [ 14 ], hν/pyrylium/O 2 [ 15 ], N-fluoro-2,4,6-trimethylpyridinium triflate-water system [ 16 ], methylene green/visible hν [ 17 ], SbCl 5 /N 2 [ 18 ], GaCl 3 /H 2 O or GaCl 3 /MeOH/O 2 [ 19 ], (CF 3 CO 2 ) 2 IPh [ 20 ], m -CIC 6 H 4 CO 3 H/CF 3 CO 2 H [ 21 ], NaNO 3 /aqueous solution (NO + , H 2 ONO + , ClNO) or t -butyl hypochlorite (Cl + ) in anhydrous CCl 4 [ 22 ], t -butyl bromide (or iodide)/DMSO [ 23 ], DMSO/HCl/H 2 O [ 24 ], TMSI (Br)/DMSO [ 25 ], LiN(I-C 3 H 7 ) 2 /THF [ 26 ], HgO/35% aqueous HBF 4 [ 27 ], benzeneseleninic anhydride [ 28 ], periodic acid [ 29 ], isoamyl nitrite [ 30 ], O-mesitylenesulfonyl hydroxylamine [ 31 ], Et 3 O + BF 4 - [ 32 ], MeI in moist acetone [ 33 ] or in 96% methanol [ 34 ], ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) in aqueous CH 3 CN [ 35 ...…”