Silyl protecting group

Substituted silyl groups (R3Si-, where R is alkyl or aryl) are widely used as protecting groups for alcohols. A variety of reagents are available for this purpose, from simple and 

As noted before (Section 1.10), the mechanism is SN2-Si, leading first to a five-coordinate intermediate  

The base then plucks off the proton from the coordinated alcohol chloride leaves, possibly at the same time or in the next step, producing a silyl ether of the alcohol as the product. 

Once the protected alcohol has been manipulated in any of a myriad ways, one typically needs to take off the silyl group, or deprotect the alcohol, to use the technical term. This is often done simply with aqueous acid. Water attacks the protonated silyl ether, as shown below, freeing the alcohol and generating trimethylsilanol  

Silanols are unstable under acidic conditions and readily self-condense as shown below  

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Pyrroles and indoles can be protected with the r-butyldimethylsilyl group by treatment with TBDMSCl and n-BuLi or NaH. Triisopropylsilyl chloride (NaH, DMF, 0°-rt, 73% yield) has been used to protect the pyrrole nitrogen in order to direct electrophilic attack to the 3-position.It has also been used to protect an indole.This derivative can be prepared from the silyl chloride and The silyl protective group is cleaved with Bu4N F , THF, rt or with CF3COOH. 

Carboximide 160, the C35-C42 fragment, can be traced retro-synthetically to phosphonate 169 and aldehyde 170. In the synthetic direction, the C35-C36 bond in 160 could be constructed by an intermolecular Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (HWE)70 coupling of intermediates 169 and 170. Reduction of the unsaturated coupling product and exchange of silyl protecting groups would then furnish compound 160. 

Similarly, in another example, alkylation of 111 with diepoxide (—)-115 (1 equiv.) in the presence of HMPA (1.3 equiv.) furnished diol (+)-117. Protection of (+)-117 to form the acetonide, removal of the silyl protecting groups (TBAF), and hydrolysis of the dithiane with Hg(Cl04)2 provided the diketone (+)-118. Hydroxy-directed syn-reduction of both carbonyl groups with NaBI U in the presence of Et2BOMe, and triacetonide formation, followed by hydrogenolysis and monosilylation, afforded the desired Schreiber subtarget (+)-119, which was employed in the synthesis of (+)-mycoticins A and B (Scheme 8.31) [56b]. 

Surprisingly, the size of the silyl protecting group significantly influences the stereochemical outcome of aldol additions performed with the lithium enolates of (S )-l-trimethylsiloxy-and (S)-l-f< rt-butyldimethylsiloxy-l-cyclohexyl-2-butanone. Thus, the former reagent attacks benzaldehyde preferably from the Si-face (9 1), which is the opposite topicity to that found in the addition of the corresponding titanium enolates of either ketone ... 

The synthesis of 5-phosphono-l,2,4-triazolin-3-one 137 began with the low-temperature metalation and phosphorylation (77) of the f-butyldimethylsilyl (TBDMS)-protectedlV-benzyl-tiiazolinone 134. The phosphonate diester 135 was obtained ter the silyl protecting group... 

At this point, completion of the total synthesis required removal of the three acetonides and the two silyl protecting groups (Scheme 18). Removal of the silyl groups with TBAF and subsequent treatment to acidic deprotection conditions led to complete deprotection of 110, but failed to provide filipin III. It was sus-... 

The tricyclic core of spirotryprostatin B can be formed via formation of the dihydropyrrole 325 <2000AGE4596>. Removal of the silyl protecting group of 322, followed by Dess-Martin oxidation, and reaction of the resultant aldehyde with the potassium salt of the diketopiperazine phosphonate 323 led to formation of the enamide 324. 

A variety of alcohols, protected as t-butyldimethylsilyl (TBDMS) ether derivatives, can be rapidly regenerated to the corresponding hydroxy compounds on alumina surface using MW irradiation (Scheme 6.8) [42], This approach prevents the use of corrosive fluoride ions that are normally employed for cleaving the silyl protecting groups. 

Classical C,C-coupling reactions of AN anions (Henry, Michael, and Mannich) involve complex systems of equilibria and, consequently, generally not performed in protic solvents. The introduction of the silyl protecting group allows one to perform these reactions in an aprotic medium to prepare or retain products unstable in the presence of active protons. In addition, the use of nucleophiles which are specifically active toward silicon (e.g., the fluoride anion) enables one to design a process in which the effective concentration of a-nitro carbanions is maintained low. 

Silyl protecting groups are the gold standard for the protection of alcohols.234 Novel photochemically removable protection groups for alcohols have been developed by Brook et a/.23S and Pirrung et al,236 For instance, cyclo-pentanol can be reacted with tris(trimethylsilyl)chlorosilane 53 in the presence of a mild base to yield the protected silyl ether 54. The protection group can be removed conveniently upon UV irradiation or by the use of Bu4NF (Scheme 12). 

Removal of the silyl protecting group using TBAF, and subsequent acetylation, led to the diacetate 818. Regioselective nitration and catalytic hydrogenation provided the (R)-arylamine 814 (613) (Scheme 5.95). 

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