Hydroxy protection silyl ethers

The tosyl protecting group of 4a is removed with sodium naphthalide at -60 °C, and an intramolecular nucleophilic attack of the nitrogen lone pair to the epoxide takes place spontaneously to afford the pyrrolidine hydroxy ester as a labile reaction product, which is immediately protected as the corresponding silyl ether 3a in 68%... 

Protection of hydroxy groups as the THP and ferf-butyldimethyl silyl ethers and, conversely, deprotection of these derivatives to the original alcohols. 

The ketone 73 was reduced chemo- and diastereoselectively and protected to provide the silyl ether 74. The ester function was then deprotonated to the corresponding ester enolate (75) that was alkylated with methyl iodide exclusively from the Re face of the enolate to afford the bicycle 76 (Scheme 11). The substrate for the retro-aldol reaction (77) was prepared by a sequence that consists of seven functional and protecting group transformations. The retro-aldol reaction converted the bicyclic yS-hydroxy ketone 77 into the 1,3-diketone 69 via the alkoxide (78) in very good yield. 

Since a-branched aldehydes gave rather higher asymmetric induction (Scheme 6.166), Nagasawa et al. extended the biphasic strategy to the diastereoselective Henry reaction of nitromethane with enantiomerically pure (S)-configured N,N -dibenzyl protected a-amino aldehydes and a-hydroxy aldehydes protected as silyl ethers. The screening reaction (Scheme 6.169) demonstrated a match/mismatch... 

Although silylformylation of 3-butyn-I-ol 84 gives normal product 85 preferentially in the absence of EtsN, an appreciable amount (38%) of 7-lactone 86 is formed concomitantly." Protection of the hydroxy group in 84 leads to selective silylformylation of the acetylenic moiety as shown in Scheme 3. Hydrolysis of the silyl ether in 88 gives 85 as a single product. 4-Pentyn-I-ol 89 reacts with Mc2PhSiH under CO pressure to give a mixture of silylformylation product 90 (20%) and (5-lactone 91 (38%) after a short reaction time (0.5 h) (Equation (16)). The unusual lactone formation is not observed in the reaction of 5-hexyn-l-ol 92 in the presence of EtsN (Equation (17)). ... 

Transition metal complexes have been widely investigated as catalysts for the synthesis of alkoxysilanes via alcoholysis of hydrosilanes. The system provides a convenient method for the protection of hydroxy groups in organic synthesis and the synthesis of silyl ethers. The general reaction is shown in Eq. (59). 

Chlorophenyl)glutarate monoethyl ester 87 was reduced to hydroxy acid and subsequently cyclized to afford lactone 88. This was further submitted to reduction with diisobutylaluminium hydride to provide lactol followed by Homer-Emmons reaction, which resulted in the formation of hydroxy ester product 89 in good yield. The alcohol was protected as silyl ether and the double bond in 89 was reduced with magnesium powder in methanol to provide methyl ester 90. The hydrolysis to the acid and condensation of the acid chloride with Evans s chiral auxiliary provided product 91, which was further converted to titanium enolate on reaction with TiCI. This was submitted to enolate-imine condensation in the presence of amine to afford 92. The silylation of the 92 with N, O-bis(trimethylsilyl) acetamide followed by treatment with tetrabutylammonium fluoride resulted in cyclization to form the azetidin-2-one ring and subsequently hydrolysis provided 93. This product was converted to bromide analog, which on treatment with LDA underwent intramolecular cyclization to afford the cholesterol absorption inhibitor spiro-(3-lactam (+)-SCH 54016 94. 

Si2.3 Examples of protection of hydroxy groups as silyl ethers... 

Chiral 4-hydroxy-2-cyclopentenones. Both (R)- and (S)-4-hydroxy-2-cyclo-pentenones can be obtained from phenol. The first step is alkaline hypochlorite oxidation to the acid 1, which is resolved with brucine. Oxidative decarboxylation of 1 gives 2, which is partially dechlorinated and protected as the silyl ether (3). The last step to 4 is reduction with zinc-silver (S, 760) or zinc-copper. ... 

The intramolecular 1,4-conjugate addition can be accomplished starting from a hydroxy group protected as silyl ether. The cyclization of the enone 13, however, performed by treatment with tetrabutylammonium fluoride in refluxing tetrahydrofuran, gives the 2,6-fra/t.s-tetrahydropy-ran 14 in only 11 % yield160. 

By the cycloaddition of dibenzyl diazenedicarboxylate and furanoid and pyranoid glycals it is possible to diastereoselectively introduce an amino function at the C-2 position of a carbohydrate29-34. A single diastereomer is produced from furanoid glycals, where the cycloaddition takes place trans to the C-3 hydroxy substituent protected as the silyl ether, e.g., formation of 14-1630. The more reactive bis(2,2,2-trichloroethyl) diazenedicarboxylate can be employed even with less reactive 3-acetyl glycals31. 

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