双手性选择单元手性固定相的研究进展

手性固定相（chiral stationary phase,CSP）作为手性色谱分离的核心技术,在手性化合物的识别和分离中得到广泛应用。以双手性选择单元结合作为CSP是近些年的研究热点,研究表明,两种手性选择单元相结合的CSP可增加手性识别位点,显著提高分离效果。本文介绍了近几年双手性选择单元手性固定相在手性分离中的研究进展,并对其发展前景进行了展望。     

Asymmetric synthesis of axially chiral benzamides and anilides utilizing planar chiral arene chromium complexes

Optically active axially chiral 2,6-disubstituted benzamides and anilides were stereoselectively prepared by utilizing planar chiral (arene)chromium complexes. Nucleophilic addition to enantiomerically pure planar chiral tricarbonyl(N,N-diethyl-2-methyl-6-formyl- (or 6-acyl)benzamide)chromium complex gave axially chiral 2-methyl-6-substituted N,N-diethyl benzamide chromium complexes with high selectivity. An alternative method for the preparation of axial chiral benzamides or anilides is an enantiotopic lithiation at the benzylic methyl of prochiral tricarbonylchromium complexes of N,N-diethyl-2,6-dimethylbenzamide and N-methyl-N-acyl-2,6-dimethylaniline with a chiral lithium amide followed by electrophilic substitution. The resulting axially chiral chromium-complexed benzamides and anilides were oxidized in air to give chromium-free axially chiral benzamides and anilides in enantiomerically enriched form without axial bond rotation at room temperature.     

Improvement of chiral stationary phases based on cinchona alkaloids bonded to crown ethers by chiral modification

To improve the chiral recognition capability of a cinchona alkaloid crown ether chiral stationary phase, the crown ether moiety was modified by the chiral group of (1S, 2S)‐2‐aminocyclohexyl phenylcarbamate. Both quinine and quinidine‐based stationary phases were evaluated by chiral acids, chiral primary amines and amino acids. The quinine/quinidine and crown ether provided ion‐exchange sites and complex interaction site for carboxyl group and primary amine group in amino acids, respectively, which were necessary for the chiral discrimination of amino acid enantiomers. The introduction of the chiral group greatly improved the chiral recognition for chiral primary amines. The structure of crown ether moiety was proved to play a dominant role in the chiral recognitions for chiral primary amines and amino acids.     

Inherently chiral electrodes: the tool for chiral voltammetry

2,2′-Bis[2-(5,2′-bithienyl)]-3,3′-bithianaphthene oligomers are a model case of electroactive films endowed with “inherent chirality”, originating from a stereogenic element coinciding with the whole electroactive backbone, thus resulting in impressive manifestations. This study highlights their applicative potentialities as low-cost and easy-to-prepare artificial enantiopure electrode surfaces, which display an unprecedented ability to pronouncedly separate voltammetry peaks of enantiomers of quite different chiral probes of applicative interest, concurrently with linear dynamic ranges for peak currents, affording enantiomer excess determination. Thus inherently chiral enantiopure electrodes can indeed be regarded as a key to chiral voltammetry.     

Synthesis of noval chiral tridentate amino alcohols as chiral solvating agents under ball-milling conditions

A new family of chiral solvating agents based on chiral didentate amino alcohols and chloromethyl pyridine derivatives were synthesized by ball milling in solvent free condition. The new chiral tridentate amino alcohols were tested as chiral NMR solvating agents for the Ts-derivatives of amino acids, other several acids and pyrazole drugs. For the Ts-derivatives of amino acids studied herein, chiral tridentate amino alcohol 3a could be used for the assignment of the absolute configurations of their racemes through the chemical shift non-equivalences of their CH₃ (Ts) protons with certain confidence.     

Stereospecific polymerization and chiral initiation,chiral crystallization and chiral nucleation

Helical macromolecules which are configurationally and conformationally specific can now be synthesized. Monomer structures must be selected that demand spacial restriction for monomer addition. High specificity of monomer addition during polymerization has parallels in crystallization of some inorganic salts from aqueous solution. Initiation of highly specific polymerizations with chiral initiators give helical polymers with substantial one-handedness. Nucleation of certain inorganic salts with chiral nucleating agents, the enantiomers of the salts produce enantiomerically pure chiral salts.     

Molecular-level chiral discrimination and induction

The review describes the mechanism of chiral discrimination of racemic amines upon crystallization and the induction of chirality in organic reactions by using them as chiral auxiliaries. In order to form conglomerates, which can be resolved into the two enantiomers upon alternative seeding, both formation and packing of 2₁-columns are essentially very important. On the other hand, in order to achieve high efficiency in resolution through diastereomeric salt formation, which is the most practical method, one of a pair of diastereomeric salts derived from a racemic amine and an enantiomerically pure resolving agent should at least have two 2₁-columns and planar boundary surfaces in its crystal structure. On the basis of this knowledge, we developed several artificial chiral auxiliaries such as erythro-2-amino-1,2-diphenylethanol,cis-2-amino-1-acenaphthenol, andcis-2-amino-3,3-dimethyl-1-indanol. These were found to be very efficient chiral auxiliaries in asymmetric inductions: alkylation of chiral imines, catalytic borane-reduction, and alkylation of chiral N-acylated oxazolidinone.     

Hierarchical self-assembly into chiral nanostructures

One basic principle regulating self-assembly is associated with the asymmetry of constituent building blocks or packing models. Using asymmetry to manipulate molecular-level devices and hierarchical functional materials is a promising topic in materials sciences and supramolecular chemistry. Here, exemplified by recent major achievements in chiral hierarchical self-assembly, we show how chirality may be utilized in the design, construction and evolution of highly ordered and complex chiral nanostructures. We focus on how unique functions can be developed by the exploitation of chiral nanostructures instead of single basic units. Our perspective on the future prospects of chiral nanostructures via the hierarchical self-assembly strategy is also discussed.

This review shows how chirality may be used for the design, construction and evolution of higher ordered and complex chiral nanostructures through hierarchical self-assembly.     

Amphiphilic chiral receptor as efficient chiral solvating agent for both lipophilic and hydrophilic carboxylic acids

Two amphiphilic chiral receptors 2a and 2b were designed and synthesized. Both are efficient chiral solvating agents for chiral carboxylic acids. In particular, 2a is an excellent CSA not only for lipophilic guests, but also for some hydrophilic guests. It is the first CSA for the direct determination of the enantiomeric composition of hydrophilic chiral hydroxylated acid in protic polar solvent.     

Preparation of chiral bipyridine bis-N-oxides by oxidative dimerization of chiral pyridine N-oxides

The direct preparation of chiral 2,2′-bipyridine bis-N-oxides has been developed. The method involves two stages, first, the deprotonation of substituted chiral pyridine N-oxides and second, the oxidative dimerization of the resulting 2-lithiopyridine N-oxides. Optimization of the reaction conditions led to the selection of LiTMP in THF for the deprotonation and molecular iodine as the oxidant. The corresponding 2-iodopyridine N-oxide is invariably formed as a by-product. A series of 11 chiral pyridine N-oxides was prepared that bear substituents at the C(2) and C(5) positions. Oxidative dimerization of these mono-N-oxides proceeded in 33–77% yield. In all cases, the dimerization was highly diastereoselective for the formation of the P-configuration of the chiral axis.     

One-pot synthesis of chiral azetidines from chloroaldehyde and chiral amines

A variety of chiral azetidinepiperidines have been synthesized utilizing an expedient one-pot union of piperidine chloroaldehyde with chiral amines. This two step one-pot procedure provides access to an interesting set of compounds that retain the chiral purity of the starting chiral amine.     

Chiral microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography with two chiral components: Improved separations via synergies between a chiral surfactant and a chiral cosurfactant

In this study, the combination of two chiral components in a microemulsion formulation for the separation of enantiomers via microemulsion EKC (MEEKC) was successfully accomplished. Previous publications of chiral microemulsions have utilized only one chiral entity; the surfactant, cosurfactant, or oil was chiral. This is the first study, to date, of the effects of using two chiral species in a single pseudostationary phase (PSP). The chiral surfactant dodecoxycarbonylvaline (DDCV) was used in conjunction with the chiral cosurfactant S-2-hexanol. Ethyl acetate was incorporated as the oil core of the microemulsion and the buffer was 50 mM phosphate at a pH of 7. Additionally, a microemulsion prepared with racemic 2-hexanol was used for comparison to a previous DDCV microemulsion and as a baseline for the newly formulated dual chiral microemulsion. The efficiencies, resolutions, and enantioselectivities for the S-2-hexanol, racemic 2-hexanol, and original 1-butanol DDCV microemulsions are compared. The hexanol-based PSPs provide improved efficiencies and resolutions. To evaluate the combination of each DDCV enantiomer (R and S) with S-2-hexanol, changes in Gibb's free energy were calculated. A synergistic effect was found when two chiral components were combined to form a microemulsion.     

Liquid-crystalline side chain polymers containing a chiral spacer unit exhibiting chiral smectic phases

The synthesis and mesomorphic properties of two liquid-crystalline side chain polymers with a chiral centre in the α or β position of the α-hydroxy acid representing the spacer unit are described. The chiral α branching leads to a dramatic decrease in the transition temperatures and a strong narrowing of the smectic mesophase (compared with the unbranched model compound I). The chiral β branching results in a chiral smectic phase, a pronounced contraction of the S_c phase, and the loss of the higher ordered S_f phase. The S*_c phase was confirmed by X-ray investigations of oriented samples. Depending on the polymerization conditions samples were obtained which were oriented in melt drawn fibres either with their smectic layers or their mesogenic units in the direction of stress.     

Synthesis and chiral recognition of novel chiral fluorescence receptors bearing 9-anthryl moieties

Two chiral fluorescence receptors 1 and 2 have been synthesized, and their structures characterized by IR, ¹H NMR, MS spectra and elemental analysis. The chiral recognition of the receptors was studied by ¹H NMR and fluorescence spectra. The results demonstrate that the receptors and tetrabutylammonium mandelate formed a 1:1 complex. Two receptors exhibit good chiral recognition abilities towards the enantiomers of tetrabutylammonium mandelate.     

Recent advances of optically active helical polymers as adsorbents and chiral stationary phases for chiral resolution

Chiral resolution is very important and still a big challenge due to different biological activity and same physicochemical property of one pair (R)- and (S)-isomer. There is no doubt that chiral selectors are essentially needed for chiral resolution, which can stereoselectively interact with a pair of isomers. To date, a large amount of optically active helical polymers as chiral selectors have been synthesized via two strategies. First, the target helical polymers are derived from natural polysaccharide such as cellulose and amylose. Second, they can be synthesized by polymerization of chiral monomers. Alternatively, an achiral polymer is prepared first followed by static or dynamic chiral induction. Furthermore, a part of them is harnessed as chiral stationary phases for chromatographic chiral separation and as chiral adsorbents for enantioselective adsorption/crystallization, resulting in good enantioseparation efficiency. In summary, the present review will focus on recent progress of the polymers with optical activity for chiral resolution, especially the literature published in the past 10 years. In addition, development prospects and future challenges of optically active helical polymers will be discussed in detail.     

Diastereoselective Ugi reaction without chiral amines: the synthesis of chiral pyrroloketopiperazines

The three-component Ugi reaction with chiral 2-(2-formyl-1H-pyrrol-1-yl)acetic acids prepared from natural l-aminoacids was investigated. The reaction opens a new route to chiral substituted pyrroloketopiperazines. One of the first examples of an asymmetric Ugi reaction without chiral amines is described. The reaction proceeds with moderate diastereoselectivity to give the target compounds in good yields. The scope and limitation of the approach are discussed.     

Separation mechanism of chiral compounds in chiral stationary phase liquid chromatography

In this paper, the concept of reversed- or normal-phase chiral stationary phase liquid chromatography has been put forward according to the polar strength of mobile and stationary phases. The statistical model developed in HPLC has been used to investigate the separation mechanism of D- and L-enantiomer in chiral stationary phase liquid chromatography. It has been observed that the variation of capacity factor of enantiomers with mobile phase composition in both reversed-phase and normal-phase chiral stationary phase liquid chromatography can be described by the fundamental elution equation lnk' = a + blnC_b + _cC_b. The effect of mobile phase composition on the selectivity of enantiomers D and L in normal-phase chiral stationary phase liquid chromatography can be described by the equation lnα = Δa + ΔblnC_b, but in reversed-phase chiral stationary phase liquid chromatography the selectivity is almost independant of the mobile phase composition.     

A novel approach for LC-MS/MS-based chiral metabolomics fingerprinting and chiral metabolomics extraction using a pair of enantiomers of chiral derivatization reagents

Chiral metabolites are found in a wide variety of living organisms and some of them are understood to be physiologically active compounds and biomarkers. However, the overall analysis of chiral metabolomics is quite difficult due to the high number of metabolites, the significant diversity in their physicochemical properties, and concentration range from metabolite-to-metabolite. To solve this difficulty, we developed a novel approach for chiral metabolomics fingerprinting and chiral metabolomics extraction, which is based on the labeling of a pair of enantiomers of chiral derivatization reagents (i.e., DMT-(S,R)-Pro-OSu and DMT-3(S,R)-Apy) and precursor ion scan chromatography of the derivatives. The multivariate statistics is also required for this strategy. The proposed procedures were evaluated by the detection of a diagnostic marker (i.e., d-lactic acid) using the saliva of diabetic patients. This method was used for the determination of biomarker candidates of chiral amines and carboxyls in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain homogenates. As the results, l-phenylalanine (L-Phe) and l-lactic acid (L-LA) were identified as the decreased and increased biomarker candidates in the AD brain, respectively. Therefore, the proposed approach seems to be helpful for the determination of non-target chiral metabolomics possessing amines and carboxyls.     

Enantiomeric separation of six chiral pesticides that contain chiral sulfur/phosphorus atoms by supercritical fluid chromatography

Six chiral pesticides containing chiral sulfur/phosphorus atoms were separated by supercritical fluid chromatography with supercritical CO₂ as the main mobile phase component. The effect of the chiral stationary phase, different type and concentration of modifiers, column temperature, and backpressure on the separation efficiency was investigated to obtain the appropriate separation condition. Five chiral pesticides (isofenphos‐methyl, isocarbophos, flufiprole, fipronil, and ethiprole) were baseline separated under experimental conditions, while isofenphos only obtained partial separation. The Chiralpak AD‐3 column showed a better chiral separation ability than others for chiral pesticides containing chiral sulfur/phosphorus atoms. When different modifiers at the same concentration were used, the retention factor of pesticides except flufiprole decreased in the order of isopropanol, ethanol, methanol; meanwhile, the retention factor of flufiprole increased in the order of isopropanol, ethanol, methanol. For a given modifier, the retention factor and resolution decreased on the whole with the increase of its concentration. The enantiomer separation of five chiral pesticides was an “enthalpy‐driven” process, and the separation factor decreased as the temperature increased. The backpressure of the mobile phase had little effect on the separation factor and resolution.     

Advanced dress-up chiral columns: New removable chiral stationary phases for enantioseparation of chiral carboxylic acids

This paper describes the preparation of new dress-up columns featuring reproducibly removable and replaceable chiral stationary phases. After synthesizing perfluroalkylated quinine and quinidine derivatives as chiral stationary phase compounds (F-CSPs), we adsorbed them reversibly onto a fluorous LC column through pumping of their solutions. Using this dress-up chiral column and fluorophobic elution of aqueous ammonium formate/MeOH mixtures, we could enantioseparate four racemic N-acetyl amino acids, dichlorprop, and sixteen fluorescent 6-aminoquinolyl-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl carbamate (AQC)-derivatized amino acids. Dressing and undressing of the coated F-CSPs could be controlled by varying the fluorophilicity and fluorophobicity of the eluent. The relative standard deviations of the retention times, the retention factors, the number of theoretical plates, the enantioseparation factors, and the resolutions of each of four preparations of such dress-up columns were all less than or equal to 5.26% (from 20 repeated analyses); the reproducibilities from four different preparations were all less than or equal to 10.6%. These columns also facilitated highly sensitive and selective analyses of AQC-amino acids when detected using LC–MS/MS.