“…VH reagents could be prepared form equimolar mixture of formamide or N, N'-dialkyl formamides such as N, N'-dimethyl formamide (DMF), N, N'-diethyl formamide (DEF), along with oxy halides such as POCl 3 and SOCl 2 at freezing temperatures. Recent reports on Vilsmeier-Haack (VH) reactions revealed that organic compounds in general and hydrocarbons with excess pi-electrons in particular undergo formylation very easily on synthetic scale [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49]. However, these reactions are known to afford acetyl derivatives when N, N'-dialkyl formamides are replaced by acetamide or N, N'-dialkyl acetamides such as N, N'-dimethyl acetamide (DMA) and N, N'-diethyl acetamide (DEA) in VH reagent.…”