Technical Notes:
1.Useful catalyst for the Diels-Alder reaction.
2.Excellent catalyst for the Friedel-Crafts acylations in ionic liquids, or solvent free.
3.Active catalyst for the ring- opening of cyclopropanes.
4.Used in the asymmetric Friedel-Crafts reaction of pyrroles and acrylates.
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4.Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 1136.