the chemoselective cleavage of benzylideneacetals having sensitive functional groups under mild conditions. It is easy to perform on large scale owing to minimal catalyst loading (0.5 mol-%). Several sensitive functional groups such as TBDPS ether, -OMs, -OAc, allyl ether, N-Boc, N-Fmoc and N-Cbz are stable under the reaction conditions. In addition, benzylideneacetal is selectively cleaved in the