“…The combination of a titanium(IV) alkoxide and a siloxane proved to be a useful terminal reductant for the phosphine-catalyzed reduction of protected hydroperoxides. , When benzyl peroxide 1c was treated with catalytic amounts of phosphine in the presence of titanium isopropoxide (Ti(O- i -Pr) 4 ) and HSiMe 2 OSiMe 2 H (1,1,3,3-tetramethyldisiloxane, TMDS), only alcohol 3 and unreacted starting material 1c were isolated from the reaction mixture (Table , entry 1). Ketal 1d underwent decomposition to an unknown product under the catalytic reducing conditions (Table , entry 2) . Reduction was much cleaner when a silyl protecting group was used for the peroxide (Table , entry 3).…”