Trimethylsilyl chloride alcohols

This must reflect activation of the carbonyl group by magnesium ion, since ketones are less reactive to pure dialkylzinc reagents and tend to react by reduction rather than addition.141 The addition of alkylzinc reagents is also promoted by trimethylsilyl chloride, which leads to isolation of silyl ethers of the alcohol products.142... 

Hydroboration of alkenes in non-ethereal solvent has been reported using diborane generated in situ from a quaternary ammonium borohydride and bromoethane (see Section 11.5). Almost quantitative yields of the alcohols are reported [e.g. 1 ]. As an alternative to the haloalkane, trimethylsilyl chloride has also been used in conjunction with the ammonium borohydride [2]. Reduction of the alkene to the alkane also occurs as a side reaction (<20%) and diphenylethyne is converted into 1,2-diphenylethanol (70%), via the intermediate /ra 5-stilbene. 

Carbanions, generated by the reaction of benzylsilanes with tetra-n-butylammo-nium fluoride react with non-enolizable aldehydes to produce the alcohol [67], When a stoichiometric amount of the ammonium fluoride is used, the methylarene corresponding to the benzylsilane is frequently a by-product and arises from formation of the hydrogen difluoride salt during the reaction. When only catalytic amounts of the ammonium fluoride initiate the reaction, the formation of the methylarene is suppressed. In a similar type of reaction (although the mechanism is not known) between aldehydes and ketones, allyl bromide, and tin in the presence of trimethylsilyl chloride the yield of the but-l-en-4-ol is raised significantly by the addition of tetra-n-butylammonium bromide, particularly in the reactions with... 

The mixture of chromium trioxide with one equivalent of trimethylsilyl chloride, with no solvent added, results in the formation of an explosive red liquid that is soluble in dichloromethane or tetrachloromethane.428 It is suggested, with no spectroscopic evidence, that it consists of trimethylsilyl chlorochromate [Me3Si-0-Cr(0)2-Cl]. This compound, which can safely be used in organic solvents, is able to oxidize alcohols to aldehydes or ketones, and interacts with r-butyldimethylsilyl ethers producing deprotection, followed by oxidation of the liberated alcohol.138 Compounds analogue to trimethylsilyl chlorochromate are also able to oxidize alcohols, although they possess lesser reactivity. They can be prepared by reaction of chromium trioxide with dimethyldichlorosilane and diphenyldichlorosilane.428b... 

Upon treatment with lithium diisopropylamide (LDA) followed by the addition of an electrophile (water, trimethylsilyl chloride, or methyl iodide), 2-methylene oxetanes were converted into homopropargylic alcohols, in good yields (Equation 26) <1998JOC6782>. 

The trimethylsilyl group has been used extensively for the protection of alcohols. One of the many methods which have been used for protecting a hydroxy group as its trimethylsilyl ether involves adding trimethylsilyl chloride (trimethylchlorosiiane, TMCS) to the alcohol in the presence of a weak base as exemplified in Equation Si2.1. 

Finally, alcohols can also be protected as silyl ethers. For example, the reaction of the alcohol with trimethylsilyl chloride in the presence of triethylamine (to react with the HC1 that is produced) produces the trimethylsilyl ether of the alcohol as shown in the following equation. (This reaction is a nucleophilic substitution by the oxygen on the silicon.) The silyl group can be removed in high yield by reaction with fluoride anion. 

PDC with trimethylsilyl chloride is not only a rapid oxidizing agent for alcohols, but will also effect a deprotection-oxidation sequence for silyl ethers. Both trimethylsilyl and r-butyldimethylsilyl ethers, which are normally stable to PDC, can be transformed directly into the corresponding carbonyl compounds in good yield (Table 13). 

Bis(trimethylsilyl) peroxide, (CH3)3SiOOSi(CH3)3, is prepared from trimethylsilyl chloride, l,4-diaza[2,2,2]bicyclooctane, and Dabco s complex with 2 mol of hydrogen peroxide [127]. It is used alone [228] or in the presence of catalysts such as pyridinium dichromate [236] trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate, CF3S03Si(CH3)3 [228, 237] or tris-(triphenylphosphine)ruthenium dichloride, [(C6H5)3P]3RuCl2 [236]. This reagent oxidizes primary alcohols to aldehydes (in preference to the oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones [236]), ketones to esters or lactones Baeyer-Villiger reaction) [238], and nucleoside phosphites to phosphates [228]. All these oxidations require anhydrous conditions. 

Trimethylsilyl iodide converts alcohols to iodides. The disadvantage of this method is the expensive reagent, which is avoided if trimethylsilyl chloride and sodium iodide are used instead (equation 27). Trimethylsilyl polyphosphate (PPSE), which is prepared from hexamethyldisiloxane and phosphorus pentoxide, also activates alcoholic hydroxy groups for substitutions with iodide anions (equation 28). ... 

Chlorination of alcohols with trimethylsilyl chloride in the presence of a catalytic amount of bismuth chloride typical procedure... 

To a stirred mixture of cinnamyl alcohol (6.71 g, 0.05 mol) and bismuth chloride (0.79 g, 25 mmol), trimethylsilyl chloride (5.43 g, 0.05 mol) was added in small portions. After 5 min, the liquid phase was decanted and the resulting cinnamyl chloride was separated by distillation (7.25 g, 95%) [94SL723]. 

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