چكيده لاتين :
This article is dedicated to Professor Habib Firouzabadi on the occasion of his 65th birthday, for his great contribution to the
development of organic chemistry in Iran.
A mild and efficient method for trimethylsilylation of alcohols with hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) catalyzed by
tetrabutylammonium bromide is reported. The method is highly chemoselective for the o-protection of primary and secondary
alcohols in the presence of amines, thiols and tertiary alcohols.
