Alcohols silyl, treatment with base

Protection of Alcohols. Trimethylsilyl ethers, readily prepared from alcohols by treatment with a variety of silylating agents have found considerable use for the protection of alcohols. They are thermally stable and reasonably stable to many organometallic reagents and they are easily cleaved by hydrolysis in acid or base or by treatment with fluoride ion. t, Butyl dimethylsilyl ethers have considerably greater hydrolytic stability and are easier to work with than trimethylsilyl ethers. They are prepared from alcohols by treatment with t. butyl dimethylsilyl chloride. 

Just as carbon-based alkyl groups can be oxidized, a silicon-based silane unit can be oxidized under certain conditions. Alkylsilanes can be converted to a hydroxy unit, but either an aryl group (R—SiR 2Ar) or another silyl group (RSi—SiR 3) must be attached to silicon. In an early version of this reaction, Fleming used a two-step process to transform the silane unit to an alcohol unit, treatment with mercuric acetate and peroxyacetic acid, followed by reduction with lithium aluminum hydride (see sec. 4.2.A for reductions with LiAlHq). Comins et al. used this procedure to convert dimethylphenylsilane (397) to alcohol 398 in 93% yield for the two steps, which was part of a synthesis of A-acetyl-A-methylphlegmarine. ... 

Chiral allylic acetates 426 can be prepared using a similar j5-ketophosphonate (425), also derived from lactic acid. The desired 425 is formed via reaction of lithiated diphenylphos-phonate with 401. Reduction of the ketone gives an intermediate alcohol which, upon treatment with base, forms the ( )-Wittig olefin. Removal of the silyl protecting group followed by acetylation gives the product 426 (> 98% ee) [133]. 

On reaction with Li-HMDS 492 and subsequent treatment with MegSiCl 14 a-ketoesters such as 512 afford N-silylated Schiff bases such as 513, which can be reduced to amino acids 514 or amino alcohols 515 and dimerized with methanol or H2O to give the imidazolone 516 [95]. Analogous treatment of benzil with Li-HMDS 492 and quenching with Me3SiCl 14 gives 517, which reacts with the Li-enolate of methyl isobutyrate 498 at 78 °C in THF to give the adduct 518 in 75%... 

Silyl ethers of aliphatic alcohols are inert towards strong bases, oxidants (ozone [81], Dess-Martin periodinane [605], iodonium salts [610,611], sulfur trioxide-pyridine complex [398]), and weak acids (e.g., 1 mol/L HC02H in DCM [605]), but can be selectively cleaved by treatment with HF in pyridine or with TBAF (Table 3.32). Phenols can also be linked to insoluble supports as silyl ethers, but these are less stable than alkyl silyl ethers and can even be cleaved by treatment with acyl halides under basic reaction conditions [595], Silyl ether attachment has been successfully used for the solid-phase synthesis of oligosaccharides [600,601,612,613] and peptides [614]. 

Mitsunobu reaction as well as by mesylation and subsequent base treatment failed, the secondary alcohol was inverted by oxidation with pyridinium dichromate and successive reduction with sodium borohydride. The inverted alcohol 454 was protected as an acetate and the acetonide was removed by acid treatment to enable conformational flexibility. Persilylation of triol 455 was succeeded by acetate cleavage with guanidine. Alcohol 456 was deprotonated to assist lactonization. Mild and short treatment with aqueous hydrogen fluoride allowed selective cleavage of the secondary silyl ether. Dehydration of the alcohol 457 was achieved by Tshugaejf vesLCtion. The final steps toward corianin (21) were deprotection of the tertiary alcohols of 458 and epoxidation with peracid. This alternative corianin synthesis needed 34 steps in 0.13% overall yield. 

Silylated cyanohydrins have found considerable utility in the regioselective protection of p-qui-nones, as intermediates for the preparation of 3-amino alcohols and as precursors to acyl anion equivalents. Such compounds are typicdly prepared in high yield by either thermal or Lewis acid catalyzed addition of TMS-CN across the carbonyl group. This cyanosilylation has a variety of disadvantages and modified one-pot cyanosilylation procedures have been reported. - The carbonyl group can be regenerated by treatment with acid, silver fluoride or triethylaluminum hydrofluoride followed by base. ... 

Homochiral epoxides are versatile intermediates for the synthesis of a variety of natural products. The four-carbon bifiinctional chiron (i )-l- erNbutyldimethylsilyl-3,4-epoxybut-l-yne (228) is conveniently prepared from 141 as shown in Scheme 53. The conversion of 141 to chloride 225 followed by base-induced chloride elimination in liquid ammonia proceeds without any detectable epimerization (as determined by both hplc and nmr analysis of the corresponding Mosher ester) to provide the i -alcohol 226 in good yield. Subsequent silyl protection followed by treatment with boron tribromide results in a highly stereoselective bromination, together with simultaneous debenzylation to the bromohydrin 227, which under mild basic conditions is converted to epoxide 228. The optical purity of 228 (ee = 99%) demonstrates the high selectivity in this new bromination reaction [80,81]. 

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