Common Organic Reactions
Here is a list of our widely used functionalized silica gel for typical organic reactions.
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SiliaBond® Potassium Permanganate nec
Potassium permanganate is a strong oxidant that will oxidize methyl groups and alcohols to carboxylic acids. SiliaBond® Potassium Permanganate (Si-KMnO4) increases recoveries, facilitates work-up, and expands the scope of the chemistry because it can be used in all organic solvents eliminating solubility issues. With SiliaBond Potassium Permanganate, the manganese salt by-products stays adsorbed onto the silica.
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SiliaBond® Silver Nitrate (AgNO3) nec
Chromatography with silver nitrate is a well known and established methodology for the separation of non polar compounds with similar polarities. Generally, with a mixture of unsaturated compounds such as alkenes, lipids, steroids, terpenes, etc, standard separation procedures lack in efficiency. However, by using SiliaBond® Silver Nitrate for your column chromatography along with SiliaPlate™ Ag for your TLC, you will have the necessary tools to circumvent the problem.
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SiliaBond® Pyridinium Chlorochromate nec (PCC)
SiliaBond® Pyridinium Chlorochromate (Si-PCC) is used for the general oxidation of alcohols to carbonyl compounds, selective oxidation of allylic and benzylic alcohols, organometallic oxidation, oxidative transpositions, oxidative cleavages, allylic and benzylic oxidation and oxidative cyclizations.
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SiliaBond® Pyridinium Dichromate nec (PDC)
SiliaBond® Pyridinium Dichromate (Si-PDC) may be used as an alternative to Si-PCC in nucleoside and carbohydrate oxidation, particularly for fragile molecules. SiliaBond PDC can also be used in conjunction with tertbutylhydroperoxide for a variety of oxidative transformations.
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SiliaBond® Diphenylphosphine
SiliaBond® Diphenylphosphine (Si-DPP) can be used as linker for catalyst immobilization such as tetrakis-(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) for Suzuki coupling.
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SiliaBond® Pyridine
SiliaBond Pyridine (Si-PYR) can be used as a tertiary amine for acid removal. It can also anchor Cu2+ ions and then be used as a catalyst for hydroquinone oxidation.
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SiliaBond® Tosyl Chloride
SiliaBond® Tosyl Chloride (Si-TsCl) readily reacts with nucleophiles such as amines and alcohols. Reaction with alcohols yields the bound tosylate, which can then be used to synthesize amines and oxazolines.
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SiliaBond® Dimethylamine
SiliaBond® Dimethylamine is a silica bound tertiary amine base that can be used in most applications requiring a tertiary amine, particularly as a HCl sponge. Silica bound ammonium salt by-products are easily separated by filtration. This dimethylamine immobilized on silica gel can be used as a base catalyst in Michael or Knoevenagel reactions.
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SiliaBond® Isocyanate
SiliaBond® Isocyanate (Si-ISO) is a versatile scavenger for nucleophiles. It readily scavenges amines, thiols, thiolates, alkoxides, and acidic phenols. Loading is determined by the removal of benzylamine in hexane at room temperature.
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SiliaBond® Propylsulfonic Acid (SCX-2)
Supported sulfonic acids such as SiliaBond® Propylsulfonic Acid (SiliaBond SCX-2) are in a class of strong acids widely used in different fields of synthetic organic chemistry. Their applications are well known and are used in a large number of settings going from drug discovery laboratories up to manufacturing processes. Among these applications, we denote their uses as acid catalysts, stationary phases for ion chromatography and basic impurity scavengers. Meanwhile, the most common use is probably as a strong cation exchanger (SCX) for the amine “Catch and Release” purification technique in SPE cartridges.


