Practical, environment-benign and atom economic KOAc-catalysed deprotection of aryl TIPS ethers under mild fluoride-free conditions

A KOAc-catalysed, fluoride-free protocol not only effects chemoselective deprotection of phenolic TIPS ethers without affecting acetal, ketal, carbamate, O-acetyl and aliphatic silyl ethers, but also improves its atom economy by recycling the silanol byproduct.