O-Methylatrolactic acid as a new reagent for determination of the enantiomeric purity and absolute configuration of chiral alcohols and amines

Easily available in both enantiomeric forms, O-methylatrolactic acid (MAA) was successfully used as a new chiral derivatizing agent. Enantiomeric purities and the absolute configurations of chiral secondary alcohols and amines were determined using the observed differences in ¹H NMR chemical shifts. The Mosher’s stereochemical model explains the conformational preferences of the respective diastereomeric MAA esters and amides. This was confirmed by the results of DFT calculations for the respective conformers.     

Determination of the absolute configuration of chiral cyclic alcohols using diamine derivatizing agents by 31P NMR spectroscopy

The absolute configuration and enantiomeric excess of chiral cyclic alcohols can be predicted from the ³¹P NMR spectra of the two diastereoisomers obtained with organophosphorus diamino-derivatizing agents (CDAs) and the chiral secondary alcohol, according to a simplified model taking into account the spatial location of the substituents of the chiral alcohol center and the ³¹P NMR signals of the two diastereoisomers.     

Helical chirality in hexamethylene triperoxide diamine

The primary explosive hexamethylenetriperoxide diamine has previously been found to exist in the solid state as a racemic mixture of helically chiral, threefold symmetric enantiomers; another enantiomeric pair of low-energy conformers has been predicted, but has never been observed. We show by solution 2D NMR at 14 T, in achiral solution and by addition of chiral shift reagents, that all four optically isomeric conformers coexist at slow equilibrium on the NMR timescale at room temperature, and can be observed. Calculations of the 1H and 13C NMR chemical shifts using gauge-including atomic orbital methods are in excellent agreement with experiment; thermochemical calculation of the free energies in solution are in somewhat worse agreement, but correctly predict the relative stability of the conformers. Analysis of the effects of chiral shift reagents on the NMR spectra suggests that discrimination between chiral isomers is primarily around the molecular equator, around which the enantiomeric gauche O--O linkages are arrayed.     

Predicting chemical shifts with graph neural networks

Inferring molecular structure from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) measurements requires an accurate forward model that can predict chemical shifts from 3D structure. Current forward models are limited to specific molecules like proteins and state-of-the-art models are not differentiable. Thus they cannot be used with gradient methods like biased molecular dynamics. Here we use graph neural networks (GNNs) for NMR chemical shift prediction. Our GNN can model chemical shifts accurately and capture important phenomena like hydrogen bonding induced downfield shift between multiple proteins, secondary structure effects, and predict shifts of organic molecules. Previous empirical NMR models of protein NMR have relied on careful feature engineering with domain expertise. These GNNs are trained from data alone with no feature engineering yet are as accurate and can work on arbitrary molecular structures. The models are also efficient, able to compute one million chemical shifts in about 5 seconds. This work enables a new category of NMR models that have multiple interacting types of macromolecules.

This model can predict chemical shifts on proteins and small molecules purely from atom elements and coordinates. It can capture important phenomena like hydrogen bonding induced downfield shift, thus can be used to infer intermolecular interactions.     

Visualization of enantiomers in cholesteric solvents through deuterium NMR

Proton decoupled deuterium NMR of mixtures of enantiomers in homogeneously oriented cholesteric solvents produces simple spectra with linewidths of 10 to 50 Hz in cases where the proton spectra would give second order patterns so complicated as to defy analysis. The chiral solvent orders each of a pair of enantiomers differently which results in a difference in the residual quadrupolar coupling constant yielding well resolved spectra for each enantiomer. That the technique constitutes a new tool for measurement of enantiomeric ratios is illustrated using several chiral benzylic alcohols.     

Fast determination of 13C NMR chemical shifts using artificial neural networks

Nine different artificial neural networks were trained with the spherically encoded chemical environments of more than 500000 carbon atoms to predict their 13C NMR chemical shifts. Based on these results the PC-program "C_shift" was developed which allows the calculation of the 13C NMR spectra of any proposed molecular structure consisting of the covalently bonded elements C, H, N, O, P, S and the halogens. Results were obtained with a mean deviation as low as 1.8 ppm; this accuracy is equivalent to a determination on the basis of a large database but, in a time as short as known from increment calculations, was demonstrated exemplary using the natural agent epothilone A. The artificial neural networks allow simultaneously a precise and fast prediction of a large number of 13C NMR spectra, as needed for high throughput NMR and screening of a substance or spectra libraries.     

用于芳香胺和醇NMR对映体检测的松香基膦试剂的合成

以松香为原料通过三步反应高产率合成手性二醇3和手性单醇6,将它们用作手性助剂现场制备有机膦衍生试剂,分别对单官能团手性底物(单胺、单醇)和双官能团底物(双胺、双醇及氨基醇)进行衍生,通过31P NMR测定,其芳基底物非对映体衍生物的膦化学位移差异值(Δδp)在3.08～0.10之间,均能够在测定条件下实现对映体峰的基线分离.用于α-萘乙胺和1,1’-联二萘酚(BINOL)样品对映体过量值测定,相对误差小于±2%.     

Prediction of enantiomeric excess in a combinatorial library of catalytic enantioselective reactions

A quantitative structure-enantioselectivity relationship was established for a combinatorial library of enantioselective reactions performed by addition of diethyl zinc to benzaldehyde. Chiral catalysts and additives were encoded by their chirality codes and presented as input to neural networks. The networks were trained to predict the enantiomeric excess. With independent test sets, predictions of enantiomeric excess could be made with an average error as low as 6% ee. Multilinear regression, perceptrons, and support vector machines were also evaluated as modeling tools. The method is of interest for the computer-aided design of combinatorial libraries involving chiral compounds or enantioselective reactions. This is the first example of a quantitative structure-property relationship based on chirality codes.     

Cyclic phosphorochloridites (chloridates) based on chiral butane-2,3-diol and dihydrobenzoin as reagents for the analysis of enantiomeric compositions of alcohols by31P NMR spectroscopy

The use of cyclic phosphorochloridites which were prepared based on PCl₃ and chiral butane-2,3-diol or hydrobenzoin as possible reagents for the analysis of the enantiomeric composition of chiral alcohols by³¹P NMR spectroscopy is considered. The diastereomeric dispersion of chemical shifts of the resulting phosphites as well as of derived phosphates and thiophosphates is compared with that of structurally similar reagents. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 308–311, February, 2000.     

An efficient chiral phosphorus derivatizing agent for the determination of the enantiomeric excess of chiral alcohols and amines by 31P NMR spectroscopy

The chiral phosphorus derivatizing agent (CDA) 1 was prepared from optically pure (S)‐1,1‐bis‐2‐naphthol. It was first used in the determination of the enantiomeric excess of chiral alcohols and amines by means of ³¹P NMR spectroscopy. It showed that, for the chiral aromatic alcohols, no apparent kinetic resolution was noted and good base‐line separation was observed. Furthermore, the chemical shift difference (Δδ) of ³¹P NMR spectroscopy was much larger than those determined by the use of other chiral phosphorus derivatizing agents reported previously. However, for aliphatic alcohols, it showed not only obvious kinetic resolutions but incomplete base‐line separation. Moreover, we also found that the use of CDA 1 was suitable for the determination of enantiomeric excess of chiral primary amines. © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 13:93–95, 2002; DOI 10.1002/hc.10018     

Trianglamine as a new chiral shift reagent for secondary alcohols

Chiral trianglamines 1 and 2 were found to be useful as NMR chiral shift reagents for the determination of enantiomeric purity and absolute configuration of several kinds of secondary alcohols, cyanohydrins, and propargyl alcohols.     

醇与极性有机溶剂间氢键的多核NMR研究

醇是一类重要的有机溶剂,对其结构和性质的研究已有很长历史。由于OH的存在,醇分子间存在着较强的氢键缔合作用,使其结构变得复杂,因而较难对它得到一个很清楚的认识。用NMR方法研究氢键也有几十年历史。早在五十年代,Arnold,Becker等就用~1HNMR研究了EtOH在CCl_4中的行为,测量了化学位移随浓度的变化。Becker认为当醇浓度很稀时,体系中只存在单体-二聚体平衡,井结合IR数据求得了平衡常数及缔合物位移。有     

Chiral Ferrocenyl Amino Alcohols：Preparation and Application as Catalysts in the Enantioselective Reduction of Ketones Using NaBH4／I2

Five novel chiral ferrocenyl amino alcohols were prepared from natural amino acids and used as catalysts in the asymmetric reduction of prochiral ketones with NaBH4/I2 combination.The incorporation of the ferrocenyl moiety into the molecule of the chiral amino alcohols greatly improved their enantioselectivity in the catalysis.The optically active secondary alcohols were obt5ained in moderate to good enantiomeric excesses and high chemical yields.     

Visualization of enantiomers in cholesteric solvents through deuterium NMR

Abstract

Proton decoupled deuterium NMR of mixtures of enantiomers in homogeneously oriented cholesteric solvents produces simple spectra with linewidths of 10 to 50 Hz in cases where the proton spectra would give second order patterns so complicated as to defy analysis. The chiral solvent orders each of a pair of enantiomers differently which results in a difference in the residual quadrupolar coupling constant yielding well resolved spectra for each enantiomer. That the technique constitutes a new tool for measurement of enantiomeric ratios is illustrated using several chiral benzylic alcohols.     

Simple method for identification of skeletons of aporphine alkaloids from 13C NMR data using artificial neural networks

This paper describes the use of artificial neural networks as a theoretical tool in the structural determination of alkaloids from (13)C NMR chemical shift data, aiming to identify skeletal types of those compounds. For that, 162 aporphine alkaloids belonging to 12 different skeletons were codified with their respective (13)C NMR chemical shifts. Each skeleton pertaining to aporphine alkaloid type was used as output, and the (13)C NMR chemical shifts were used as input data of the net. Analyzing the obtained results, one can then affirm the skeleton to which each one of these compounds belongs with high degree of confidence (over 97%). The relation between the correlation coefficient and the number of epochs and the architecture of net (3-layer MLP or 4-layer MLP) were analyzed, too. The analysis showed that the results predicted by the 3-layer MLP networks trained with a number of the epochs higher than 900 epochs are the best ones. The artificial neural nets were shown to be a simple and efficient tool to solve structural elucidation problems making use of (13)C NMR chemical shift data, even when a similarity between the searched skeletons occurs, offering fast and accurate results to identification of skeletons of organic compounds.     

In situ Synthesis of Rosin Derived Chiral Derivatizing Agents for 31P NMR Assays of Amine and Alcohol Enantiomers

Chiral alcohols(3, 5) were synthesized in optically pure forms from easily available rosin acid in short-steps. A comprehensive protocol for the enantiomeric excess assays of mono-or difunctional-grouped chiral secondary amine or alcohol has been established with them used as chiral auxiliary for chiral phosphorus derivatizing agents(CPDAs) in ³¹P NMR tests. Chemical shift difference(Δδ_P) values ranging from 4.5 to 0.15 between two diastereoisomers of the CPDAs and the aryl substrates were obtained. Positive Δδ_R-S was observed for all the tested alcohol P(III) and P(V) derivatives, while negative Δδ_R-S was observed for all the amines.     

Structure-based predictions of H NMR chemical shifts of sesquiterpene lactones using neural networks

In this work the prediction of ¹H NMR chemical shifts of CH_n protons of sesquiterpene lactones by means of neural networks is described. This method is based on the incorporation of experimental chemical shifts of protons of sesquiterpene lactones as additional memory of an associative neural network system previously trained with chemical shifts of other organic compounds. One advantage of this method is its ability to distinguish between CH₂ diastereotopic protons belonging to rigid substructures since stereochemistry is considered. This is achieved via the automatic conversion of the 2D structure diagram into a 3D molecular structure. The predicted ¹H NMR chemical shifts of the sesquiterpene lactones showed a high level of accuracy. This is the first report on a fully automatic proton assignment of structures of sesquiterpene lactones of an accuracy that allows its use in structure elucidation.     

用^19F NMR方法测 定光学活性胺与醇的光学纯度

本文研究了全氟-2-正丙氧基丙酸的某些非对映异构体酯与酰胺在~(19)FNMR上化学位移的差别,应用这种差别可确定光学活性醇与胺的光学纯度。     

Enantioselective Reduction of Achiral Ketones with NaBH_4/I_2 Catalyzed by (S)-Ferrocenyl Amino Alcohols

In recent years much attention has been devoted to the enantioselective synthesis of optically active alcohols which are important starting materials for many biologically active compounds1. Since Corey and co-workers found the chiral oxazaborolidine catalyzed reduction (CBS reduction) of prochiral ketones, the method for the generation of chiral secondary alcohols has become one of the most attractive research fields2, 3. But borane and its complexes such as borane-THF or borane-dimethyl …