Vol. 3, Issue 1, Part A (2021)

This review covers the Friedel-Craft’s acylation of benzene derivatives using various catalysts such as metal halogen acid, metal oxide, metal triflate, ionic liquids and miscellaneous catalytic systems. The author tries to cover all the literature in this area. Some of the methods described above are useful in organic synthesis, which is of great important synthesis in the preparation of natural products, active pharmaceutical ingredients, agrochemicals, fine chemicals and fragrances.