Deprotection fluoride

Since the acetylenic proton is acidic, it often needs to be protected as a trialkylsilyl derivative. It is conveniently deprotected with fluoride ion. 

Aryl and alkyl trimethylsilyl ethers can often be cleaved by refluxing in aqueous methanol, an advantage for acid- or base-sensitive substrates. The ethers are stable to Grignard and Wittig reactions and to reduction with lithium aluminum hydride at —15°. Aryl -butyldimethylsilyl ethers and other sterically more demanding silyl ethers require acid- or fluoride ion-catalyzed hydrolysis for removal. Increased steric bulk also improves their stability to a much harsher set of conditions. An excellent review of the selective deprotection of alkyl silyl ethers and aryl silyl ethers has been published. ... 

Trimethylsilylethynylpyrazole was deprotected by treatment with tetrabutyl-ammonium fluoride (TBAF) to give monosubstituted acetylene in 90% yield. (96ADD193). The same conditions were used to cleave the trimethylsilyl group in l-tetrahydropyranyl-3-carboxyethyl-4-[2-(trimethylsilyl)ethynyl]pyrazole (96INP 9640704). 

The next major obstacle is the successful deprotection of the fully protected palytoxin carboxylic acid. With 42 protected functional groups and eight different protecting devices, this task is by no means trivial. After much experimentation, the following sequence and conditions proved successful in liberating palytoxin carboxylic acid 32 from its progenitor 31 (see Scheme 10) (a) treatment with excess 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone (DDQ) in ie/t-butanol/methylene chloride/phosphate buffer pH 7.0 (1 8 1) under sonication conditions, followed by peracetylation (for convenience of isolation) (b) exposure to perchloric acid in aqueous tetrahydrofuran for eight days (c) reaction with dilute lithium hydroxide in H20-MeOH-THF (1 2 8) (d) treatment with tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride (TBAF) in tetrahydrofuran first, and then in THF-DMF and (e) exposure to dilute acetic acid in water (1 350) at 22 °C. The overall yield for the deprotection sequence (31 —>32) is ca. 35 %. 

The trimethylsilyl protecting group can be removed by routine deprotection with triethylamine -hydrogen fluoride complex. 

All of the ethynylated cyclobutadienes are completely stable and can be easily manipulated under ambient conditions, as long as the alkyne arms carry substituents other than H. For the deprotected alkynylated cyclobutadiene complexes, obtainable by treatment of the silylated precursors with potassium carbonate in methanol or tetrabutylammonium fluoride in THF, the stability is strongly dependent upon the number of alkyne substitutents on the cyclobutadiene core and the nature of the stabilizing fragment. In the tricarbonyUron series, 27b, 27c, 29 b, and 28b are isolable at ambient temperature and can be purified by sublimation or distillation under reduced pressure. The corresponding tetraethynylated complex 63 e, however, is not stable under ambient conditions as a pure substance but can be stored as a dilute solution in dichloro-methane. It can be isolated at 0°C and kept for short periods of time with only... 

Glycosyl fluorides generally resist hydrolysis (or solvolysis) under basic conditions. For example, 150,151 (see Section 11,3 and Table II), and the deprotected product (153) from 151 were unreactive to sodium methox-ide in refluxing methanol (overnight), only 152 giving the correspond-... 

The 2-(trimethylsilyl)ethoxymethyl group (SEM) can be removed by various fluoride sources, including TBAF, pyridinium fluoride, and HF.165 This deprotection involves nucleophilic attack at silicon, which triggers (3-elimination. 

In the area of ion sensing, cation recognition by electrodes containing functionalized redox-active polymers has been an area of considerable interest. Fabre and co-workers have reported the development of a boronate-functionalized polypyrrole as a fluoride anion-responsive electroactive polymer film. The electropolymerizable polypyrrole precursor (11) (Fig. 11) was synthesized by the hydroboration reaction of l-(phenylsulfonyl)-3-vinylpyrrole with diisopinocampheylborane followed by treatment with pinacol and the deprotection of the pyrrole ring.33 The same methodology was utilized for the production of several electropolymerizable aromatic compounds (of pyrrole (12) (Fig. 11), thiophene (13 and 14) (Fig. 11), and aniline) bearing boronic acid and boronate substituents as precursors of fluoride- and/or chloride-responsive conjugated polymer.34... 

The potentiality of the present methodology is demonstrated by the synthesis of y-undecalactone, as shown in Scheme 18 [37,47], The treatment of the THP-protected cu-hydroxyalkyl iodide with the anion of methoxybis(trimethylsilyl) methane gave the corresponding alkylation product. Acidic deprotection of the hydroxyl group followed by Swern oxidation produced the aldehyde. The aldehyde was allowed to react with heptylmagnesium bromide, and the resulting alcohol was protected as tm-butyldimethylsilyl ether. The electrochemical oxidation in methanol followed by the treatment with fluoride ion afforded the y-undeealactone. 

The glycosylation process by using the trisaccharide fluoride is repeated twice to give trimeric Lex61 after deprotections. 

D-ribofuranosidell8(30 and 32) (or potassium hydrogenfluoride and sodium fluoride in the latter case119) yielded 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-D-arabi-nose (31) and 3-deoxy-3-fluoro-D-xylose (33), respectively, after deprotection. 

Nucleophilic displacements at carbon atoms adjacent to the ano-meric center of aldopyranosides do not normally proceed satisfactorily, but, surprisingly, treatment of methyl 3,4-0-isopropylidene-2-0-(p-nitrophenylsulfonyl)-a-D-glucoseptanoside with tetrabutylammon-ium fluoride in acetonitrile afforded the corresponding mannoside, from which 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-/3-D-mannopyranose was obtained by subsequent deprotection.153 Whether this is a general property of sep-... 

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