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Approaches to a photocleavable protecting group for alcohols
Gary A Epling1, Anthony A Provatas
1Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3060, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 19, 2002
Abstract:
A new protecting group for the alcohol functionality was devised and shown to be removed photochemically under ultraviolet light in the presence of a radical scavenger in high yields.