Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

A One-Step Conversion of p-Methoxybenzyl Ethers into Methoxymethyl Ethers by the Action of Dimethoxymethane in the Presence of Tin (II) Bromide and …

T Oriyama, M Kimura, G Koga

Index: Oriyama, Takeshi; Kimura, Mikio; Koga, Gen Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1994 , vol. 67, # 3 p. 885 - 887

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Citation Number: 19

Abstract

The combined use of dimethoxymethane with catalytic amounts of tin (II) bromide and bromomethyl methyl ether cleaves p-methoxybenzyl ethers to give methoxymethyl ethers in good yields. The chemoselective conversion of p-methoxybenzyl ethers in the presence of the benzyl ether function into methoxymethyl ethers has also occurred successfully.