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A chemoselective deprotection of trimethylsilyl acetylenes catalyzed by silver salts

A Orsini, A Vitérisi, A Bodlenner, JM Weibel, P Pale

Index: Orsini, Alban; Viterisi, Aurelien; Bodlenner, Anne; Weibel, Jean-Marc; Pale, Patrick Tetrahedron Letters, 2005 , vol. 46, # 13 p. 2259 - 2262

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Abstract

Trimethylsilyl acetylenes can be selectively deprotected in the presence of a catalytic amount of silver salts. AgNO3 and AgOTf proved to be the most effective catalyst in a mixture of methanol, water and dichloromethane. Other functional groups, and especially silyl ethers, are not affected in these conditions.