Trichloroacetimidate Reagents

As described previously, trichloroacetimidates are also commonly employed as alcohol alkylation reagents, particularly when existing functionality is not acid sensitive.¹ Recent applications of allyl trichloroacetimidate include the synthesis of an allyl propargyl ether intermediate in the synthesis of the fused-ring alkaloid securinine,² preparation of fluorinated probes for protein kinase C (PKC),³ and in the formal synthesis of the oxocene target Laurencin (Scheme 1).⁴

Scheme 1. ( 678414 )

Likewise, 4-methoxybenzyl trichloroacetimidate has found extensive application for the protection of alcohols in the form of p-methoxybenzyl (PMB) ethers that are readily cleaved under oxidative conditions, typically dichlorodicyanoquinone (DDQ) or ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN). As shown in Scheme 2, 4-methoxybenzyl trichloroacetimidate was successfully applied in the selective preparation of chiral syn- or anti- diamines,⁵ as well as in independent syntheses of bryostatin intermediates (Scheme 3).^6,7

Scheme 2

Scheme 3

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