Proximately Assisted and Chemoselectively Cleavable Protecting Groups for Alcohols, 2-[2-(Arylmethyloxy)ethyl]benzoic Esters

Yutaka Watanabe, Masanori Ishimaru, Shoichiro Ozaki

Chemistry Letters · 1994 · 16 citations · 14 references

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Abstract Alcohols were protected by esterification with new protecting reagents, 2-[2-(arylmethyloxy)ethyl]benzoic acids and the esters were chemoselectively deprotected in a proximately assisted manner even in the presence of acetyl, levulinyl, and silyl groups.

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