Description acceptable. A highly chemoselective form of this process can occur via a Norrish Type II photo·isomerization in nitro·benzyls such as NVOC. Anisole and p-cresol are used to prevent damaging side reactions after acylium carbocations are produced via a form of this process that uses an SN1 reaction with TFA. It’s not related to quizbowl, but this process occurs when light is shone on PPGs. Performing a type of this process selectively at low pH relies on large steric differences, such as between (*) TIPS and DMIPS. This process is the first step of each cycle of the phosphoramidite method, in which the formation of a DMT cation yields a bright orange color. Coupling and this process alternate in solid-phase peptide synthesis, which usually uses piperidine to perform this process on Fmoc. For 10 points, name this process exemplified by treating a silyl ether with TBAF or an acid to restore an alcohol group. ■END■
ANSWER: deprotection [or word forms; accept descriptions of removing a protecting group; prompt on desilylation or detritylation by asking “what general chemical task does that reaction exemplify?”; prompt on removal or cleavage or word forms]
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