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Procedure
A. Cyclohexyltrimethoxysilane (2)A 250 mL, oven-dried, two-necked, round-bottomed flask is charged with a 3.2 cm, Tefloncoated magnetic oval stir bar and coupled with a 50 mL dropping funnel. Both the dropping funnel and the round-bottomed flask are sealed with a rubber septum. The system is evacuated for 10 min and back-filled with nitrogen. This process is repeated twice more, and then, the flask is charged by syringe with pentane (180 mL), anhydrous pyridine (21.0 mL, 20.5 g, 260 mmol, 4 equiv), and anhydrous methanol (10.5 mL, 8.3 g, 260 mmol, 4 equiv) (Notes 1-3).Additionally, a solution of cyclohexyltrichlorosilane 1 (14.14 g, 65.0 mmol, 1.0 equiv) in pentane (37 mL) is prepared in an addition funnel. (Figure 1, left) The stirred, homogeneous solution (Note 4) is cooled to 0 °C (external temperature) via an ice-water bath while under a nitrogen atmosphere (Figure 1). After cooling for 10 min the solution in the dropping funnel is added dropwise to the flask over 35 min (Notes 5,6,and 7). A voluminous white 1 Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323. 2 Pyridine was purchased from Fisher scientific (Certified ACS grade, ≥99%) and stored over KOH pellets.1 The following reagents in this section were purchased from commercial sources and used without further purification: Pentane (≥99%, Acros Organics) and methanol (extra dry over 4 Å molecular sieves, 99.8%, Acros Organics). 3 Although pentane is used in this protocol, a number of other solvents can be used (e.g., n-hexane, n-heptane, diethyl ether, tetrahydrofuran) with similar results.. For simple aliphatic alkyltrichlorosilanes hydrocarbon solvents are favored because of ease of product isolation. 4 The solution is stirred at 500 rpm throughout the reaction. 5 The solution in the funnel has a milky color. Figure 1, right) forms upon addition of 1. Following complete addition of 1, the reaction mixture is stirred at 0 °C for 5 min. The ice bath is removed, and the heterogeneous solution is stirred for 3 h at room temperature.
HHS Public AccessUpon confirmation that the reaction is complete by crude 1 H NMR, the stirring is stopped, and the solids are allowed to settle (Figure 2) (Note 8). The reaction mixture is decanted from the solid pyridinium hydrochloride and transferred to a 1000 mL separatory funnel (Note 9). The white pyridinium salt is washed with pentane (100 mL) to assist in transferring all of the product to the funnel. The separatory funnel is charged with deionized H 2 O (250 mL). The layers are separated, and the aqueous layer is extracted with pentane (2 × 125 mL). The combined organic layers are washed with 2 M aqueous HCl (2 × 100 mL), saturated aqueous NaHCO 3 (150 mL), deionized water (150 mL), and then saturated aqueous NaCl (150 mL). The organic layer is then dried over sodium sulfate (25 g), and after filtration, the solvent is removed in vacuo by rotary evaporation (Note 10) to furnish pure 2 (12.49 g, 94%)...