wt/vol

 

wt/vol

MW

moles

density

equivs.

yield

I

9.10 mL

88.11

0.1105

1.070

1.0

 

II

2.79 g

24.00

0.1104

 

1.0

 

III

16.66 g

150.73

0.1105

 

1.0

 

IV

300 mL

-

-

 

 

 

V

20.943 g

202.37

0.1035

 

 

(94%)

 

Procedure:  1000 mL 1-neck flask, stirbar, septum, N2 inlet

                  Prepared a suspension of 2.79 g of powdered NaH in 300 mL of dry THF.  Stirred at rt.  Added 9.10 mL of diol I.  Stirred for 2 h.  Added 16.66 g of TBSCl.  Let stir overnight.  Quenched with ice.  Extracted with Et2O.  The organic layer was dried over MgSO4, filtered and the solvent was removed by rotary evaporation.  The product was isolated by Kugelrohr distillation (70 C, 1 mm).   The product was a clear, colorless oil.

 

1H NMR (CDCl3, 300 MHz) d 5.68 (m, H2, H3), 4.24 (d, J = 4.9 Hz, H4), 4.18 (t, J = 5.6 Hz, H1), 1.99 (t, J = 5.9 Hz, OH), 0.89 (s, SiC(CH3)3), 0.07 (s, Si(CH3)2).

 

notes

 

This particular procedure gives high yields of monosilylated diols using stoichiometric equivalents of reagents.  The reaction works best for primary diols.

 

McDougal, et al. (see McDougal, P.G.; Rico, J.G.; Oh, Y-I.; Condon, B.D.  J. Org. Chem.  1986, 51, 3388.) propose that a nonstatistical ratio of products is obtained due to the low solubility of the monosodium salt in THF coupled with a silylation step that is faster than proton transfer.  However, the reaction has been shown to work with soluble monolithium salts.