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216143

Sigma-Aldrich

Tetrabutylammonium fluoride solution

1.0 M in THF

Synonym(s):

TBAF solution

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About This Item

Linear Formula:
[CH3(CH2)3]4NF
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
261.46
Beilstein:
3762762
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352116
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.22

form

liquid

Quality Level

concentration

1.0 M in THF

impurities

~5 wt. % water

density

0.903 g/mL at 25 °C

storage temp.

2-8°C

SMILES string

[F-].CCCC[N+](CCCC)(CCCC)CCCC

InChI

1S/C16H36N.FH/c1-5-9-13-17(14-10-6-2,15-11-7-3)16-12-8-4;/h5-16H2,1-4H3;1H/q+1;/p-1

InChI key

FPGGTKZVZWFYPV-UHFFFAOYSA-M

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Application

Reactant for preparation of:
  • Triple monoamine reuptake inhibitors as a new generation of antidepressants
  • Alcohols via hydrolysis of alkyl silyl ethers neutral pH in mixed organic-aqueous buffered solutions
  • Oligoribonucleotides with phosphonate-modified linkages
  • Aryl alkyl alcohols via Nozaki-Hiyama allylation catalyzed by chiral bipyridyldiol ligands and chromium trichloride
  • Conjugated dienoic acid esters using Suzuki coupling reactions
  • Macrocyclic o-aminobenzamide Hsp90 inhibitorwith antitumor activity
  • Phospshoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) dual inhibitors
  • Anti-diabetic polyacetylenic glucosides
Tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF) can be used as a reagent:
  • For the deprotection of silyl and N-sulfonyl groups.
  • In the fluorination reactions.
  • To synthesize 2-substituted indoles by cyclization reaction of various 2-ethynylanilines with terminal alkynes using Pd catalyst. It can also be used as an activator in the synthesis of arylated or alkenylated alkynes by the coupling reaction of aryl and alkenyl halides with terminal alkynes in the presence of Pd catalyst.

Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Aquatic Chronic 3 - Carc. 2 - Eye Irrit. 2 - Flam. Liq. 2 - Repr. 2 - Skin Irrit. 2 - STOT SE 3

Target Organs

Central nervous system, Respiratory system

Supplementary Hazards

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

1.4 °F

Flash Point(C)

-17 °C

Regulatory Information

危险化学品

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  3. How should Product 216143, Tetrabutylammonium fluoride solution be stored?

    This product is hygroscopic and should be stored under inert gas, such as nitrogen, and at 2-8 deg C, which is in accordance with our MSDS.

  4. What applications can 216143 Tetrabutylammonium fluoride solution, be used in?

    This product can be used as a fluorinating reagent.

  5. What causes Product 216143, Tetrabutylammonium fluoride solution, to turn purple?

    Our specifications for this product indicate the material should be colorless to yellow in color. Contact with ketones will immediate discoloration sometimes appearing purple in color. 

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Convenient synthesis of 2-substituted indoles from 2-ethynylanilines with tetrabutylammonium fluoride
Yasuhara A, et al.
Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin Transactions 1, 39(4), 529-534 (1999)
Non-Sonogashira-type palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions of terminal alkynes assisted by silver (I) oxide or tetrabutylammonium fluoride.
Mori A, et al.
Organic Letters, 2(19), 2935-2937 (2000)
Tetrabutylammonium Fluoride
Li Hui-Yin, et al.
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, Second Edition (2001)
Deprotection of N-sulfonyl nitrogen-heteroaromatics with tetrabutylammonium fluoride
Yasuhara A and Sakamoto T
Tetrahedron Letters, 39(7), 595-596 (1998)
Zhenfeng He et al.
Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003), 41(33), 10043-10051 (2012-05-29)
A new kind of organic-inorganic hybrid complexes based on polyoxometalate were synthesized through symmetrically grafting two adeninyl groups onto Anderson-type MnMo(6) clusters and encapsulating the clusters by organic surfactants. The resultant complexes exhibited thermal-induced dynamic self-assembly behaviors which greatly depended

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