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Reductive desilanolation as a route to benzonitriles. An application to a concise synthesis of the aromatic sector of calicheamicin

SH Olson, SJ Danishefsky

Index: Olson, Steven H.; Danishefsky, Samuel J. Tetrahedron Letters, 1994 , vol. 35, # 43 p. 7901 - 7904

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Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... The TMS-cyanohydrins of quinones undergo reductive desilanolation in the presence of samarium iodide to form hydroxybenzonitriles. Benzoquinone 1 was converted to the hexasubstituted aromatic fragment of calicheamicin 4 by this method. ... The TMS-cyanohydrins of quinones ...