“…N,N,N′,N′-peralkylated amidinium salts are of general interest in preparative organic chemistry [37][38][39], because they can be used for the preparation of nearly all kinds of orthoamide derivatives [40] and ketene aminals [41,42], which are of high synthetic importance. Thus, the precursors for very useful formylating reagents, such as N,N-dimethylformamide acetals, the Bredereck-Simchen esters, or tris(dialkylamino)methanes, are N,N,N′,N′-tetraalkyl-formamidinium salts.…”