Etherifications triethylsilane

Oriyama and coworkers reported an iron-catalyzed reductive etherification of carbonyl compounds with triethylsilane and alkoxytriaUcylsilane [149, 150] and alcohols (Scheme 48) [151]. 

Triethylsilane reduces ketals to ethers in excellent yields in the presence of Nafion-H65(equation 58). When one considers the conversion of a ketone to a ketal to an ether, the overall transformation corresponds to a reductive etherification of the ketone. This general class of reduction has also been applied to the reduction of the anomeric carbon of sugars66(equation 59). 

Reductive Etherifications and Acetal Reductions. Additional applications of triethylsilane in the reduction of C-0 bonds also continue to surface. The Kusanov-Pames dehydrative reduction of hemiacetals and acetals with trifluorosulfonic acid/EtsSiH has proven especially valuable. Under such conditions, 4,6-O-benzyli-dene acetal glucose derivatives can be asymmetrically deprotected to 6-0-benzyl-4-hydroxy derivatives (eq 28) and thioketone derivatives can be converted to syn-2,3-bisaryl (or heteroaryl) di-hydrobenzoxanthins with excellent stereo- and chemoselectivity (eq 29). Triethylsilane is also useful in a number of related acetal reductions, including those used for the formation of C-glycosides. For example, EtsSiH reductively opens 1,3-dioxolan-4-ones to 2-alkoxy carboxylic acids when catalyzed by HCU. Furthermore, functionalized tetrahydrofurans are generated in good yield from 1,2-0-isopropylidenefuranose derivatives with boron trifluoride etherate and EtsSiH (eq 30). These same conditions lead to 1,4- or 1,5-anhydroalditols when applied to methyl furanosides or pyranosides. ... 

Triethylsilane can also facilitate the high yielding reductive formation of dialkyl ethers from carbonyls and silyl ethers. For example, the combination of 4-bromobenzaldehyde, trimethylsi-lyl protected benzyl alcohol, and EtsSiH in the presence of catalytic amounts of FeCls will result in the reduction and benzylation of the carbonyl group (eq 32). Similarly, Cu(OTf)2 has been shown to aid EtsSiH in the reductive etherification of variety of carbonyl compounds with w-octyl trimethylsilyl ether to give the alkyl ethers in moderate to good yields. Likewise, TMSOTf catalyzes the conversion of tetrahydrop)ranyl ethers to benzyl ethers with Ets SiH and benzaldehyde, and diphenylmethyl ethers with EtsSiH and diphenylmethyl formate. Symmetrical and unsymmetrical ethers are afforded in good yield from carbonyl compounds with silyl ethers (or alcohols) and EtsSiH catalyzed by bismuth trihalide salts. An intramolecular version of this procedure has been nicely applied to the construction of cA-2,6-di- and trisubstituted tetrahydropyrans. ... 

In this context, a one-pot regioselective protection of persilylated monosaccharides, using copper(ii) triflate as a single catalyst was able to promote acetalation-reductive etherification-acylation reactions. In the same way, the easy to handle, cheap and environment-friendly FeCls 6H2O complex was a very efficient catalyst to promote regioselective acetalation and reductive etherification on glucopyranosides. Hence, treatment of per-O-silylated a-methyl-u-glucopyranoside 50 with benzaldehyde (3 equiv) and triethylsilane (1.1 equiv) in the presence of... 

The stereoselective intramolecular reductive etherification of 5-trialkylsiloxy substituted ketones with catalytic bismuth tribromide and triethylsilane provides a convenient method for the construction of cis-2,6-disubstituted tetrahydropyrans (Equation 28) [46]. This method was highlighted in the key step of an expeditious total synthesis of the antibiotic (—)-centrolobine. 

In alcoholic acidic media, triethylsilane effects the reductive etherification of ketones, presumably by hydride transfer to the resonance-stabilized carbonium ion (72) (Scheme 149). 

Reductive Etherifications and Acetal Reductions. Additional applications of triethylsilane in the reduction of C-0 bonds also continue to surface. The Kusanov-Pames dehydrative reduction of hemiacetals and acetals with trifluorosulfonic acid/Et3SiH has proven especially valuable. Under such conditions, 4,6-O-benzyli-dene acetal glucose derivatives can he asymmetrically deprotected to 6-0-henzyl-4-hydroxy derivatives (eq 28) and thioketone... 

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