Highly Selective Deblocking of Propargyl Carbonates in the Presence of Propargyl Carbamates with Tetrathiomolybdate

Ramesh, R and Bhat, Ramakrishna G and Chandrasekaran, Srinivasan (2005) Highly Selective Deblocking of Propargyl Carbonates in the Presence of Propargyl Carbamates with Tetrathiomolybdate. In: Journal of Organic Chemistry, 70 (3). pp. 837-840.

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Abstract

Propargyloxycarbonyl chloride, 1, has been used to protect the hydroxyl and amino functionalities of amino alcohols and aminophenols in one pot using triethylamine or pyridine as a base. The increased reactivity of benzyltriethylammonium tetrathiomolybdate, 2, toward propargyl carbonates over propargyl carbamates is studied in detail and has been exploited further to develop an orthogonal protection strategy for the hydroxyl and amino functionalities. For example, 2-amino-1-butanol, 6a, was treated with 1 to get the N,O-diPoc compound 7a in 90% yield, which when treated with 1.1 equiv of 2 at room temperature removes the Poc group attached to oxygen while leaving the one attached to nitrogen intact to yield compound 8a in 85% yield. This particular observation offers a new protecting strategy where an amine and an alcohol group can be protected simultaneously in one pot, and in a later synthetic step, if the alcohol group has to be deprotected selectively, it can be achieved with 1 equiv of 2.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Organic Chemistry
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to American Chemical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Organic Chemistry
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2005
Last Modified:	20 Jan 2012 06:14
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/2864

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