The trimethylsilyl group is a widely used protecting group for carboxylic acids, alcohols, mercaptans, carbonyl, and nitro compunds.2 Recently, ita usefulness was also demonstrated as an activating group, for example, for carboxylic acids, in the transesterification of carboxylic esters under essentially neutral condition^.^ Although there are numerous reports on different silylation methods, most of them involve basic condition^.^.^ Recently, sily- lations under ...