Roberta De Rose

Roberta De Rose


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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19 November 2022 in Catalysts
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DPDebora Procopio
Debora Procopio
CSCarlo Siciliano
Carlo Siciliano
RRRoberta De Rose
Roberta De Rose
Sonia TrombinoSonia Trombino
Sonia Trombino
Roberta CassanoRoberta Cassano
Roberta Cassano
Maria Luisa Di GioiaMaria Luisa Di Gioia
Maria Luisa Di Gioia
The tert-butyloxycarbonyl (Boc) group is one of the most widely used amine-protecting groups in multistep reactions in synthetic organic chemistry as well as in peptide synthesis. Traditional methods to remove the Boc group have disadvantages in terms of high acidity, the use of expensive reagents, excessive amounts of catalysts and harmful solvents as well as high temperatures, making them environmentally unsustainable. Therefore, more efforts must be stepwise tightened to make Boc removal practical, clean, and minimize any potential impact. We describe an efficient and sustainable method for N-Boc deprotection by means of a choline chloride/p-toluenesulfonic acid deep eutectic solvent (DES), which is used as a reaction medium plus catalyst. The adopted conditions allow the deprotection of a wide variety of N-Boc derivatives in excellent yields. The strategy has found advantages in greening, simplicity, and short reaction times, resulting in a useful alternative to standard methods.