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tert-Butyldimethylsilyl Chloride
tert-Butyldimethylsilyl Chloride

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Name: tert-Butyldimethylsilyl Chloride

CAS: 18162-48-6

Purity: 99.5%min

MOQ: 1KG

Product Paramete

CAS No:18162-48-6
Name:tert-Butyldimethylsilyl Chloride
EINECS:242-042-4
Formula:C6H15ClSi
Weight:150.72
Other Names:TBDMSCl; tert-ButyldiMethylsilylchloride
Type:Pharmaceutical raw materials; Organic raw materials
Shelf Life:3 years
Brand Name:Look Chem
Place of Origin:Shandong, China

What is tert-Butyldimethylsilyl Chloride?

White solid. Melting point 86-89℃, boiling point 128℃. Soluble in most organic solvents, usually used in CH2Cl2, THF and DMF. The reagent is sensitive to moisture and has a pungent taste. This product is corrosive and flammable. It is recommended to be used in anhydrous systems and operated and used in a fume hood.

Tert-butyldimethylchlorosilane (TBDMSCl, TBSCl for short) is an important sterically hindered organosilicon protective agent. The active hydrogen in organic compounds can be replaced by silyl groups under mild reaction conditions to generate intermediates with high chemical stability, and the reactivity of other groups is not affected. The role of TBDMSCl in reacting with alcohol hydroxyl groups to generate silyl ethers is particularly important. 

Compared with the common trimethylchlorosilane protective agent, TBDMSCl silyl ether has higher stability. Due to its steric hindrance, it has excellent selectivity on polyhydroxy substrates and can easily selectively protect primary alcohols in the presence of secondary or tertiary alcohols. TBDMSCl is widely used in the synthesis of drugs and natural products, such as as an auxiliary raw material for the synthesis of prostaglandins, steroid compounds, certain antibiotics, and lipid-lowering drugs lofostin and nefostin.

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tert-Butyldimethylsilyl Chloride Uses

Tert-butyldimethylchlorosilane (TBDMSCl) is a commonly used silanizing agent and one of the most widely used important protecting groups in organic synthesis. It is used as a protecting group for hydroxyl groups in the synthesis of ribonucleosides, and is also an oxidant and decyanant. It can react with hydroxyl groups under mild conditions to form the corresponding silyl ethers, and react with ketones, esters or amides to form the corresponding enol silyl ethers.

Silanizing agent. As a hydroxyl protecting agent and derivatization reagent in organic synthesis for analysis and preparation. Protect tertiary alcohols. React with alcohols to form silyl ethers. Determine the conformation of cholesterol derivatives Chemicalbook. Synthesize prostaglandins, auxiliary raw materials for certain antibiotics, and hypolipidemic drugs lovastatin (Lovastatin) and simvastatin (Simvastatin).

Tert-butyldimethylchlorosilane is used to protect hydroxyl groups in organic synthesis. It can be used in the synthesis of prostaglandins. It can also be used as an auxiliary raw material for lipid-lowering drugs such as lovastatin and simvastatin. It plays an important role in the preparation of isoxazoline N-oxides from α-bromonitroalkanes. It also serves as a versatile protecting agent for amines, amides, and alcohols.

Applications of tert-Butyldimethylsilyl Chloride

tert-Butyldimethylsilyl chloride can be used as a hydroxyl protecting agent. Corey and Venkateswarlu describe the use of tert-butyldimethylsilyl chloride (in DMF at 35°C in the presence of imidazole) to protect the hydroxyl groups of a variety of target alcohols in the synthesis of prostaglandins.

  • TBDMSCL reacts preferentially with the 5′-hydroxyl group.
  • The reaction is rapid even at room temperature, and the extent of reaction and product distribution depend on the amount of imidazole present.
  • Even in the presence of excess TBDMSCL, the reaction occurs preferentially with the hydroxyl group over the amino group.
  • The TBDMS group is stable under phosphorylation conditions.
  • According to Corey and Venkateswarlu, the TBDMS group can be removed with (n-butyl)NF in tetrahydrofuran (THF) without affecting other acid- or base-labile protecting groups on the nucleoside.

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Related References

  1. Ogilvie et al. Tert-butyldimethylsilyl as a protecting group for deoxynucleosides. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 2011, 51: 3799.
  2. WikiPedia