New Strategies for Protecting Group Chemistry: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Indirect Oxidative Cleavage of para-Siletanylbenzyl Ethers

…, H Lam, SE House, GB Dudley

Index: House, Sarah E.; Poon, Kevin W. C.; Lam, Hubert; Dudley, Gregory B. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2006 , vol. 71, # 1 p. 420 - 422

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Abstract

Reported herein is a new entry in the growing arsenal of arylmethyl ether protecting groups. The para-siletanylbenzyl (PSB) ether is electronically similar to the benzyl ether. Cleavage of the PSB ether is accomplished under mild conditions involving alkaline hydrogen