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Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« on: November 22, 2011, 04:11:54 AM »
Any help is welcome to explain:
Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3

TMS–C≡C-R + K2CO3  :rarrow:  H–C≡C-R
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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2011, 05:35:40 AM »
Any help is welcome to explain:
Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3

TMS–C≡C-R + K2CO3  :rarrow:  H–C≡C-R
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I take it that this is aqueous pot carb?
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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2011, 09:22:34 AM »
Silicon loves oxygen almost as much as it loves fluorine.

EDIT: Si can also go pentavalent if attacked by oxygen or fluorine.
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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2011, 10:25:28 AM »
Silicon loves oxygen almost as much as it loves fluorine.

EDIT: Si can also go pentavalent if attacked by oxygen or fluorine.

But there must be a proton source in this example.
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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2011, 10:40:34 AM »
Excellent point. I was assuming it was aqueous (or water-THF/MeOH/ACN/whatever).
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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2011, 12:45:20 PM »
The used solvent is methanol which firstly reacted with K2CO3 to give potassium methoxide CH3O-K+

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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2011, 02:35:05 PM »
The used solvent is methanol which firstly reacted with K2CO3 to give potassium methoxide CH3O-K+

Really? From the pKas, that looks to me to be about five orders of magnitude in the wrong direction. Do you think there would be any significant concentration of methoxide in this solution?

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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2011, 03:07:38 PM »
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/je020012v

in this paper, there are more explanation on the solubility of potassium carbonate in the methanol.

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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2011, 03:12:54 PM »
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/je020012v

in this paper, there are more explanation on the solubility of potassium carbonate in the methanol.

In that case the mechanism of de-silylation becomes obvious. In fact it should be catalytic in base.
Do you have any ideas?
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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #9 on: November 24, 2011, 03:08:52 AM »

In that case the mechanism of de-silylation becomes obvious. In fact it should be catalytic in base.
Do you have any ideas?

TMS-acetylenes can removed under basic conditions

K2CO3 + 2MeOH  ::equil:: 2K+-OMe + H2O + CO2

-OMe  will attack Si to give pentavalent coordination intermediate..


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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2011, 05:37:47 AM »

In that case the mechanism of de-silylation becomes obvious. In fact it should be catalytic in base.
Do you have any ideas?

TMS-acetylenes can removed under basic conditions

K2CO3 + 2MeOH  ::equil:: 2K+-OMe + H2O + CO2

-OMe  will attack Si to give pentavalent coordination intermediate..



And the proton originates from the methanol regenerating methoxide which is what I meant about being catalytic in base.
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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2012, 10:08:20 AM »
Still not clear if the triple bond will contribute in the breaking of the bond (with red colour) Si–C≡C in the structure TMS–C≡C-R.

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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2012, 10:38:05 AM »
Still not clear if the triple bond will contribute in the breaking of the bond (with red colour) Si–C≡C in the structure TMS–C≡C-R.

No contribution from the triple bond.
The nucleophile attacks the Si atom and the electrons from the C-Si bond pick up a proton from the solvent, which is why I said it is catalytic in base.
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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2012, 05:00:36 AM »
The solvent is MeOH...

Thanks a lot discodermolide.

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Re: Mechanism of deprotection of TMS-alkynyl compound by K2CO3
« Reply #14 on: May 05, 2016, 07:24:52 AM »
Hello

You can show a complete mechanism of this reaction please.
Thanks

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