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Boc removed from an amine

Acid takes the carbamate off, leaving the free amine.

mechanism written

What it needs, and what it gives

Reaction class
Deprotection
Typical conditions
Trifluoroacetic acid, or hydrogen chloride in dioxane.
Mass balance
not stated
Mechanism
Acid removal of a Boc group, 3 steps

Conditions are what the literature ordinarily uses, recorded so you can see whether yours are in the usual range. They are not a procedure and they are not scaled to your flask.

How it is thought to happen

Acid protonates the carbamate, the tert-butyl group leaves as a cation because it can, and what is left gives off carbon dioxide to free the amine.

  1. Acid protonates the carbamate
  2. The tert-butyl group leaves as a cation
  3. Carbon dioxide leaves and the amine is free

This is the pathway taught for the class, not a record of what was observed. On the platform it is drawn on the structures you supply, with the curly arrows on the atoms that actually move.

Try it on your own structures

Enter your reactants in the Reaction Lab. If this transformation matches what you drew, it is applied and the outcome is shown next to the records that back it — with the count of documented reactions doing the same thing on substrates like yours, rather than a confidence score.