Amplification of the enantiomeric excess of a compound in kinetic resolution by a racemic reagent

The possibility of amplifying the small ee of a enantioimpure substance using a racemic reagent in kinetic resolution is discussed. A kinetic treatment of this problem along with some experimental proofs of the concept is presented. Simulation on kinetic resolution of small ee substrate by a racemic reagent showed an important enantioenrichment in the substrate ee, sometimes reaching close to absolute ee. Experiments of kinetic resolution of an amine of a small ee by a racemic acylating reagent gave a substantial amplification in ee of the amine. The possible transformation of an undetectable low ee in substrate to a detectable higher ee by using a suitable racemic reagent is also briefly discussed with help of calculations. The usefulness of asymmetric amplification by a racemic reagent is considered in the context of the biomolecular homochirality on earth.     

用转化率计算动力学拆分中对映体过量的研究

本文从理论上讨论了酶催化不可逆动力学拆分反应中底物的对映体过量ee(S)与转化率c的定量关系式并通过实验数据对以上关系式进行了验证。     

动力学拆分法的研究进展

综述了光活性化合物动力学拆分法的研究进展及其在不对称合成中的应用。     

Supramolecular tandem enzyme assays for multiparameter sensor arrays and enantiomeric excess determination of amino acids

The coupling of an enzymatic transformation with dynamic host-guest exchange allows the unselective binding of macrocycles to be used for highly selective analyte sensing. The resulting supramolecular tandem enzyme assays require the enzymatic substrate and its corresponding product to differ significantly in their affinity for macrocycles, for example, cation receptors, and to show a differential propensity to displace a fluorescent dye from its host-guest complex. The enzymatic transformation results in a concomitant dye displacement that can be accurately followed by optical spectroscopy, specifically fluorescence. By exploiting this label-free continuous enzyme assay principle with the fluorescent dye Dapoxyl and the macrocyclic host cucurbit[7]uril, a multiparameter sensor array has been designed, which is capable of detecting the presence of amino acids (e.g. histidine, arginine, lysine, and tyrosine) and their decarboxylases. Only in the presence of both, the particular amino acid and the corresponding decarboxylase, is the amine or diamine product formed. These products are more highly positively charged than the substrate, have a higher affinity for the macrocycle and, therefore, displace the dye from the complex. The extension of the high selectivity and muM sensitivity of the tandem assay principle has also allowed for the accurate measurement of D-lysine enantiomeric excesses of up to 99.98 %, as only the L-enantiomer is accepted by the enzyme as a substrate and is converted to the product that is responsible for the observed fluorescence signal.     

Asymmetric amplification by kinetic resolution using a racemic reagent: example in amine acetylation

The reaction of a racemic reagent on a mixture of enantiomers with small ee (ee=enantiomeric excess) has been studied for amine acylation. A substantial asymmetric amplification could be realized, for example, from 67 to >95.5 ee. The combination of asymmetric amplifications is subsequently discussed. Two sequential asymmetric amplifications, one using a racemic reagent and another using a positive nonlinear effect allowed us to start from 1.5 % ee and end with a large amount of a product of 97 % ee.     

TLC resolution of enantiomeric mixtures of amino acids

Summary Resolution of enantiomeric mixtures of DL-amino acids (Nine) using silica gel layers impregnated with (-)-bruncine is reported. The solvent system used was Butanol: Acetic acid: Chloroform (3∶1∶4). The diastereomers were formed and hydrolysed, by dilute HCl spray, on the chromatogram only and the amino acids thus resolved were located by ninhydrin spray. The cross resolution possibilities of enantiomers were also calculated.     

Sugar amino acids and related molecules: Some recent developments

To meet the growing demands for the development of new molecular entities for discovering new drugs and materials, organic chemists have started working on many new concepts that can help to assimilate knowledge-based structural diversities more efficiently than ever before. Emulating the basic principles followed by Nature to build its vast repertoire of biomolecules, organic chemists are developing many novel multifunctional building blocks and using them to create ‘nature-like’ and yet unnatural organic molecules. Sugar amino acids constitute an important class of such polyfunctional scaffolds where the carboxyl, amino and hydroxyl termini provide an excellent opportunity to organic chemists to create structural diversities akin to Nature’s molecular arsenal. In recent years, sugar amino acids have been used extensively in the area of peptidomimetic studies. Advances made in the area of combinatorial chemistry can provide the necessary technological support for rapid compilations of sugar amino acidbased libraries exploiting the diversities of their carbohydrate frameworks and well-developed solid-phase peptide synthesis methods. This perspective article chronicles some of the recent applications of various sugar amino acids, furan amino acids, pyrrole amino acids etc. and many other related building blocks in wide-ranging peptidomimetic studies     

Manifestation of felkin-anh control in enantioselective acyl transfer catalysis: kinetic resolution of carboxylic acids

Under control: The classical polar Felkin-Anh model has been applied for the first time to the analysis of diastereoselectivity in acylation reactions. Computational studies demonstrate that stereoelectronic effects control the enantioselectivity in asymmetric catalytic alcoholysis of acyclic anhydrides.     

High resolution capillary gas chromatography and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry of protein and non-protein amino acids,amino alcohols,and hydroxycarboxylic acids as their tert-butyldimethylsilyl derivatives

A simple, single-step derivatization technique is presented for capillary GC-FID and GC-MS separation and identification of common protein and non-protein constituents of natural peptides as their tert-butyldimethylsilyl (TBDMS) derivatives. The tert-butyldimethyl-silylation of more than sixty compounds was accomplished with high yields and a single peak observed for each component. The TBDMS derivatives of both the protein and non-protein substances, moreover, exhibit excellent separation on apolar capillary columns and can be resolved completely using a polydimethylsiloxane or 5 % phenyl polydimethylsiloxane column and, complementarily, a 50 % phenyl polydimethylsiloxane column. Retention data and molar responses of the TBDMS derivatives on the polydimethylsiloxane column are compiled. Direct coupling of the 5 % phenyl polydimethylsiloxane column to an ion trap mass spectrometer enabled fast separation and identification of the investigated components, at nanomole to picomole levels, on the basis of retention and mass spectral data. The general usefulness of the method is demonstrated by research into new biologically active peptides isolated from entomopathogenic fungi.     

An information theory-based evaluation of stationary phases developed for optical resolution of amino acids

Summary Naphthylethylurea multiple-bonded chiral stationary phases prepared for the optimal resolution of p-bromophenylcarbamyl derivatives of enantiomeric amino acids are examined from the viewpoint of information theory. The criterion used is the function of mutual information (FUMI) which describes the precision of analysis as a function of peak shape (area and width), overlap and noise level. The length of the polyethyleneamine spacer in the chiral stationary phases is evaluated by the precision (FUMI) calculated from the peak shape and overlap. The best column is defined as the one which gives the highest precision. The temperature effect on the precision is also examined.     

脂肪酶催化二次动力学拆分制备高光学纯度(S)-萘普生

设计了一种利用立体选择性相反的两种脂肪酶催化二次动力学拆分,由外消旋萘普生甲酯制备高光学纯度(S)-萘普生的方法。理论曲线预测,与简单的酶促动力学拆分反应相比,二次动力学拆分可以明显提高高光学纯度产物的产率.根据几种脂肪酶在微水/异辛烷双液相反应体系中不对称水解萘普生甲酯的立体选择性和对映体比率(E),首先选用R选择性的固定化南极假丝酵母脂肪酶(Novozym 435)对外消旋萘普生甲酯进行第一次拆分,然后选用S选择性的柱状假丝酵母脂肪酶(CRL)对S过量的剩余底物萘普生甲酯在同样的反应体系中进行第二次拆分.该二次拆分反应对映体过量值为96.8%的(S)-萘普生产率达19.9%.