Aromatic and aliphatic acetals are formed in excellent yields under solventless conditions at room temperature within 30 minutes by treating aldehydes and ketones with 0.5 mol% Al(OTf)3 as a recyclable catalyst in the presence of only 1.2 equivalents of an orthoester as reagent.
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