Protecting groups, allyl-based deprotections

Allyl carbonate esters are also useful hydroxy-protecting groups and are introduced using allyl chloroformate. A number of Pd-based catalysts for allylic deprotection have been developed.209 They are based on a catalytic cycle in which Pd° reacts by oxidative addition and activates the allylic bond to nucleophilic substitution. Various nucleophiles are effective, including dimedone,210 pentane-2,4-dione,211 and amines.212... 

Olefination of the Aldehyde 178 using a stabilized Wittig reagent followed by protecting group chemistry at the lower branch and reduction of the a,p-unsaturated ester afforded the allylic alcohol 179 (Scheme 29). The allylic alcohol 179 was then converted into an allylic chloride and the hydroxyl function at the lower branch was deprotected and subsequently oxidized to provide the corresponding aldehyde 161 [42]. The aldehyde 161 was treated with trimethylsilyl cyanide to afford the cyanohydrin that was transformed into the cyano acetal 180. The decisive intramolecular alkylation was realized by treatment of the cyano acetal 180 with sodium bis(trimethylsi-lyl)amide. Subsequent treatment of the alkylated cyano acetal 182 with acid (to 183) and base afforded the bicyclo[9.3.0]tetradecane 184. 

N -Protection as allyl carbamate is used generally only for specific synthetic purposes where acid- or base-mediated deprotection procedures must be avoided or reduced to a minimal extent as in the case in the synthesis of glyco- and phosphopeptides (see Sections 6.3 and 6.5). Otherwise the orthogonality of this type of amino protection has been mainly exploited in side-chain protection to allow for selective chemistry such as selective acylations, e.g. cyclizations, to be performed on protected peptides in solution or in the resin-bound state (see Section 4.3.2.3.4). An additional interesting application of the Aloe group is the one-pot deprotection and acylation with carboxy components resistant to the paUadium(0)-catalyzed allyl cleavage by hydrostannolysis as reported in Section 4.3.2.3.4.P 1... 

The orthogonality of allyl-based protection toward Boc and Fmoc groups also allows its use for the side-chain protection of hnear and branched peptides as well as for glycopeptides. It also enables specific deprotection at preselected side-chain groups for macrocyclization of peptides. 

The palladium-catalyzed deprotection of allyl-based protecting groups has emerged as an important tool in organic synthesis.194 Consequently, special... 

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