Phosphine-catalyzed reductions of alkyl silyl peroxides by titanium hydride reducing agents: Development of the method and mechanistic investigations

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 75, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 5083-5091

  Harris, Jason R ^a   Haynes, M Taylor ^a   Thomas, Andrew M ^a   Woerpel, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC AMOUNTS; CHEMOSELECTIVE REDUCTION; CROSSOVER EXPERIMENTS; HYDROPEROXIDES; OXYGEN ATOM; PHOSPHINE OXIDE; SILICON ATOMS; SILYL GROUP; SUBSEQUENT REDUCTION; TITANIUM ALKOXIDES; TITANIUM HYDRIDE;

ALKYLATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; OXYGEN; PEROXIDES; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; REDUCING AGENTS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES;

OXIDATION;

OXYGEN 17; PEROXIDE; PHOSPHINE; REDUCING AGENT; SILOXANE; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; ISOTOPE LABELING; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; REDUCTION;

CATALYSIS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PEROXIDES; PHOSPHINES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TITANIUM;

EID: 77955157299     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: 15206904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo1008367     Document Type: Article

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