title: A mild and efficient method for the selective deprotection of silyl ethers using KF in the presence of tetraethylene glycol.
abstract: A mild and efficient protocol for the deprotection of silyl ethers using KF in tetraethylene glycol is reported. A wide range of alcoholic silyl ethers can be selectively cleaved in high yield in the presence of certain acid- and base-labile functional groups. Moreover, the phenolic silyl ethers were cleaved exclusively, without affecting the alcoholic silyl ethers, at room temperature.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Gyeonggi 440-746, Korea.
authors: Hailong
authors: H
authors: Yan
authors: Joong-Suk
authors: JS
authors: Oh
authors: Choong Eui
authors: CE
authors: Song