Fujioka Hiromichi, Ohba Yusuke, Hirose Hideki, Murai Kenichi, Kita Yasuyuki
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
Org Lett. 2005 Jul 21;7(15):3303-6. doi: 10.1021/ol051135i.
[reaction: see text]. CAN is a good reagent for the transformation of 2-hydroxyethyl ether units to alcohols. Significantly, many functional groups can tolerate the reaction conditions, although they do not survive under many previously reported removal conditions. The reaction mechanism is clarified.