Widely used for protection of amino groups in peptide synthesis and multi-step organic synthesis of small molecules.
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Applications
Widely used for protection of amino groups in peptide synthesis and multi-step organic synthesis of small molecules.
Solubility
Soluble in ethyl acetate, ether and benzene. Insoluble in water.
Notes
Moisture Sensitive, store away from water/moisture. Store in cool place. Keep container tightly closed in a dry and well-ventilated place. Store under dry inert gas.
RUO – Research Use Only
General References:
- Xavier Ariza; Fèlix Urpí; Carles Viladomat; Jaume Vilarrasa. One-pot conversion of azides to Boc-protected amines with trimethylphosphine and Boc-ON. Tetrahedron Letters., 1998, 39 (49), 9101-9102.
- A. Paul Krapcho; Christopher S. Kuell. Mono-Protected Diamines. N-tert-Butoxycarbonyl-α,ω-Alkanediamines from α,ω-Alkanediamines. Synthetic Communications: An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 1990, 20(16), 2559-2564.
- Reagent for the preparation of Boc-derivatives of amino acids, preferred on safety grounds to the unstable t-butyl azidoformate. In aqueous dioxane and in the presence of triethylamine as base, reaction is rapid at room temperature. The organic by-product, 2-hydroxyimino-2-phenylacetonitrile is easily removed by extraction into an organic phase: Tetrahedron Lett., 4393 (1975); Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 50, 718 (1977). See Appendix 6.