New strategies for protecting group chemistry: Synthesis, reactivity, and indirect oxidative cleavage of para-siletanylbenzyl ethers

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1876-1885

  Tlais, Sami F ^a   Lain, Hubert ^a,b   House, Sarah E ^a,c   Dudley, Gregory B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZYL ETHERS; NEW STRATEGIES; OXIDATIVE CLEAVAGES; PROTECTING GROUPS;

ETHERS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OXIDATION;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

4 SILETANYLBENZYL ETHER; BENZYL DERIVATIVE; ETHER DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

ETHERS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOSILICON COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 64249164710     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo802229p     Document Type: Article

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