Grundmann aldehyde synthesis
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The Grundmann aldehyde synthesis is a chemical reaction
Chemical reaction
A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the transformation of one set of chemical substances to another. Chemical reactions can be either spontaneous, requiring no input of energy, or non-spontaneous, typically following the input of some type of energy, such as heat, light or electricity...

 that produces an aldehyde
Aldehyde
An aldehyde is an organic compound containing a formyl group. This functional group, with the structure R-CHO, consists of a carbonyl center bonded to hydrogen and an R group....

 from an acyl halide
Acyl halide
An acyl halide is a chemical compound derived from an oxoacid by replacing a hydroxyl group with a halide group....

.

Because of the Rosenmund reduction
Rosenmund reduction
The Rosenmund reduction is a chemical reaction that reduces an acid halide to an aldehyde using hydrogen gas over palladium-on-carbon poisoned with barium sulfate...

 and DIBAL-H accomplish similar transformations, this reaction sequence is not practiced much currently.
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