A new and efficient approach to benzocycles from cyclopropene derivatives is described. Deprotection by organolithiums and subsequent ring-opening cyclization of the related 2-cyclopropenyl phenyl or benzyl acetates generated benzofurans and isochromenes in one pot.

The base moiety of 1-N-methyladenosine can be protected with a chloroacetyl group for incorporation of this modified nucleoside into DNA and RNA. Carefully controlled anhydrous conditions are needed for deprotection of the oligonucleotides.

The trifluoroacetyl group protects the nucleophilic HYNIC from unwanted side reactions yet allows radiolabelling with technetium-99m under mild conditions, due to efficient and specific promotion of deprotection by a technetium complex intermediate.

N-protected beta-amino aldehydes having the nitrogen in a ring are easily converted into Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts; O-acetylation and N-deprotection result in spontaneous cyclization to bicyclic structures having nitrogen at a bridgehead.

[reaction: see text]. SmI2/H2O/amine provides selective cleavage of unsubstituted allyl ethers in good to excellent yields. This method is therefore useful in deprotection of alcohols and carbohydrates.

The synthesis of 1-(4-boronobenzyl)- 1H-pyrrole was investigated using three different routes. Two key routes that involved the introduction boronate group protected as pinacol ester, failed, due to deprotection problems. route involving final step reaction yielded (10).

The first asymmetric synthesis of β-trifluoromethylated pyrroline carboxylates has been achieved by organocatalytic conjugated addition of adamantyl glycine imine to β-trifluoromethylated enones, followed by a deprotection/cyclization/dehydration sequence.

Ammonia and selenoaldehydes are both problematic components in Ugi reactions. Here we report the efficient direct multicomponent synthesis of sensitive selenocysteine peptides without the use of convertible (protected) primary amines, including suitable deprotection protocols for selenols.

A synthesis of moracin M using Appel dehydration a biomimetic inspired endoperoxide and subsequent late stage aromatization, is described. key 1,3-diene, obtained from base-free Suzuki-Miyaura coupling, can undergo oxidation to its endoperoxide, followed by under conditions aromatization give benzofuran, with deprotection then providing in only 4-steps. Alternatively, this 1,3‑diene synthetic r...