Sequential Chiral Induction and Regulator-Assisted Chiral Memory of Pillar[5]arenes

Chirality transfer is widely observed in life processes, and many artificial chiral transfer systems have been developed. In these systems, chiral information is transferred from chiral inducers to chiral acceptors by a direct chiral induction process and a direct chiral memorization process. We have developed ternary nondirect chiral transfer systems based on pillar[5]arenes, in which a third factor was introduced as a regulator. The planar chirality of an acceptor was induced and memorized by a chiral inducer with precise control by a regulator. In the chiral induction period, the feed sequence of the chiral inducer and regulator affected the chiral induction behavior of the chiral acceptor. The chiral memory ability of the acceptor was substantially improved by the combined action of the chiral inducer and regulator.     

Chiral Separation of Organic Phosphonate Compounds on Polysaccharide-Based Chiral Stationary Phases

Four polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases have been used to separate the enantiomers of fourteen O,O-dialkyl-1-benzyloxycarbonyl-aminoarylmethyl phosphonates. These polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases are Chiralpak AD, Chiralpak AS, Chiralcel OG and Chiralcel OJ. The data obtained indicate that the chiral separation ability for these organophosphonate compounds are in the order Chiralpak AD > Chiralcel OG > Chiralcel OJ > Chiralpak AS. With Chiralpak AD, all of the studied compounds could be easily baseline separated. Those two polysaccharides possess different chiral discrimination mechanism due to of the difference of the conformational structures of amylose and cellulose. The chiral discrimination of derivatized amylose chiral stationary phases were based on the stereogenic fit of the analytes in the helical structures of amylose and the transient diastereomeric complex formation between the analyte and the amylose CSP through π–π interaction H-bond interactions and induced dipole interactions exerted by the substituents on the analyte molecules. The chiral discrimination, in case of derivatized cellulose chiral stationary phase is based on the stereogenic fit of the analytes in the grooves of cellulose followed by interactions mentioned above between the analytes and the cellulose CSP.     

Chiral Induction and Remote Chiral Communication in Quinoline Oligoamide Foldamers for Determination of Enantiomeric Excess and Absolute Configuration of Chiral Amines and Their Derivatives

Two pentameric foldamers, Q5 and Q5C-S , containing a C−F bond were synthesized based on quinoline oligamide foldamers for the measurement of enantiomeric excess and for the determination of absolute configuration of chiral amines, diamines, amino alcohols, and α-amino acid esters. Chiral induction of Q5 was triggered in situ when the chiral analytes reacted with the C−F bond in Q5 by a N-nucleophilic substitution reaction, leading to a linear correlation between the CD amplitude at the region of quinoline chromophores and the ee values of the chiral analytes, which can be used for the ee determination of chiral analytes. Furthermore, the CD intensity of Q5C-S containing a chiral motif at its C-terminus enhances via remote, favorable chiral communication when the chiral induction was triggered in situ by chiral analytes at the N-terminus matches the original helicity of Q5C-S , but decreases via remote, conflicted chiral communication when the chiral induction is triggered in situ by chiral molecules at the N-terminus mismatches the original one. The system can thus be used for determination of the absolute configuration of chiral analytes, given that the chirality of the chiral motif at the C-terminus of Q5C-S is known.     

16种手性化合物在不同自制手性固定相上的拆分比较

采用高效液相色谱法,在自制的纤维素-三(3,5-二甲基苯基氨基甲酸酯)(ATEO-OD)、纤维素-三(4-甲基苯基氨基甲酸酯)(ATEO-OG)和纤维素-三(4-甲基苯基甲酸酯)(ATEO-OJ)3种手性柱上对16种不同结构的手性化合物进行了拆分和比较.试验结果表明:16个手性样品在这3种手性固定相上分别获得了不同程度的拆分,A TEO-OD对所分析样品具有更好的手性识别能力,ATEO-OG和ATEO-OJ的手性识别能力相当.     

Selective Encapsulation and Chiral Induction of C60 and C70 Fullerenes by Axially Chiral Porous Aromatic Cages

Chiral induction has been an important topic in chemistry, not only for its relevance in understanding the mysterious phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking in nature but also due to its critical implications in medicine and the chiral industry. The induced chirality of fullerenes by host–guest interactions has been rarely reported, mainly attributed to their chiral resistance from high symmetry and challenges in their accessibility. Herein, we report two new pairs of chiral porous aromatic cages (PAC), R- PAC-2 , S- PAC-2 (with Br substituents) and R- PAC-3 , S- PAC-3 (with CH₃ substituents) enantiomers. PAC-2 , rather than PAC-3 , achieves fullerene encapsulation and selective binding of C₇₀ over C₆₀ in fullerene carbon soot. More significantly, the occurrence of chiral induction between R- PAC-2 , S- PAC-2 and fullerenes is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and the intense CD signal within the absorption region of fullerenes. DFT calculations reveal the contribution of electrostatic effects originating from face-to-face arene-fullerene interactions dominate C₇₀ selectivity and elucidate the substituent effect on fullerene encapsulation. The disturbance from the differential interactions between fullerene and surrounding chiral cages on the intrinsic highly symmetric electronic structure of fullerene could be the primary reason accounting for the induced chirality of fullerene.     

Single-Layered Chiral Nanosheets with Dual Chiral Void Spaces for Highly Efficient Enantiomer Absorption

Although considerable effort in recent years has been devoted to the development of two-dimensional nanostructures, single-layered chiral sheet structures with a lateral assembly of discrete clusters remain elusive. Here, we report single-layered chiral 2D sheet structures with dual chiral void spaces in which discrete clusters of planar aromatic segments are arranged with in-plane AB order in aqueous methanol solution. The chirality of the sheet is induced by the slipped-cofacial stacks of rectangular plate-like aromatic segments in the discrete clusters which are arranged laterally with up and down packing, resulting in dual chiral void spaces. The chiral nanosheets function as superfast enantiomer separation nanomaterials, which rapidly absorb a single enantiomer from a racemic mixture with greater than 99 % ee.     

测定手性有机酸对映体纯度的新试剂

用NMR技术测定微量手性化合物的对映体纯度,已有多种方法。其中,加手性镧化物位移试剂法适用面最广,但对有机酸,结果常不理想。另一种使用较广的方法是加手性试剂,将样品中两对映体转变成非对映异构体,然后比较非对映基因NMR信号的强度,确定原样品中对映体的组成比例。国外已出售的手性试     

手性纳米二氧化硅的制备和应用

由于在手性识别、手性分离以及手性催化等领域的潜在应用,手性纳米二氧化硅已经成为介孔二氧化硅材料发展的重要方向之一。人们通过设计不同的模板分子(包括凝胶因子、表面活性剂、嵌段聚合物及生物大分子等)、控制反应过程的参数等方法已经制备出不同形貌和不同功能化的手性纳米二氧化硅,但形貌可控、手性单一的纳米二氧化硅的制备仍然是该领域的极大挑战。本文对近年来手性纳米二氧化硅的制备及其应用的研究进展作一简单概述。     

新型双烯丙基化手性二胺的合成

通过烯丙基溴化锌对手性亚胺的两次不对称加成, 合成了光活性的双烯丙基化的新型手性二胺. 首先经N-Boc保护和Dess-Martin氧化制得了光活性的(S)-N-Boc-3-苯基-2-氨基丙醛. (S)-N-Boc-3-苯基-2-氨基丙醛与(S)-缬氨基酸甲酯缩合生成手性亚胺, 在七水合三氯化铈(CeC1₃•7H₂O)催化以及底物的手性诱导作用下, 该手性亚胺与烯丙基溴化锌经不对称加成反应合成了高光活性的单烯丙基化手性胺. 该手性胺与2-噻吩甲醛缩合生成新的手性亚胺, 再次通过不对称烯丙基加成反应合成了含有四个手性中心的高光学纯的双烯丙基化手性二胺. 目标化合物和关键中间体的结构均被¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR及MS确证.     

Chiral Nanoprobes and Their Biological Effects

Chirality is an essential property of nature. The emergence of chiral material in nanoscale has shown great promise in the investigation of biological interfaces, chiral optical devices, metamaterials and the origin of chirality. In the present study, we focused on fabricating chiral nanoprobes and their applications in living systems. Through precise synthesis or the self‐assembly of various chiral configurations, significant research achievements have been obtained by our group. In this brief introduction, we will discuss the recent progress of chiral nanostructures in the selective recognition of biomolecules, ultrasensitive detection and their interaction with living cells.     

Chiral Crystals,Jack, Conductivity and Magnetism

Recently, the application of magnetic fields to chiral chemical systems has been rewarding. In a forward-looking 1986 paper, ‘Chiral Metals?’, Wallis, Karrer, and Jack D. Dunitz forecast ‘that the limitation to proper symmetry elements in a chiral conductor could be associated with the emergence of new properties, those connected with interactions between applied electric and magnetic fields and their internal counterparts.’ This was a prescient remark, but it has become manifest in ways that would not have been foreseen in its details by the authors. Here are reviewed the development of chiral conductors broadly imagined by Dunitz and coworkers, based on enantiopure tetrathiafulvalene derivatives that restrict space groups to those that have only symmetry operations of the first kind, as well as the new emergent properties associated with the transport of electrons when magnetic fields are applied to chiral crystals among other systems. These include electrical magnetochiral anisotropy (eMChA), inverse electrical magnetochiral anisotropy (ieMChA), helimagnetism and chirality induced spin selectivity (CISS). The conclusion discussing the circumstances under which achiral TTF crystals becomes chiral, only seems to introduce an oxymoron.     

Effect of Chiral Additives in the Preparation of Cellulose-Based Chiral Stationary Phases in HPLC, and Effect on Enantiomer Resolution

Chiral stationary phases (CSPs) for high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) have been prepared by coating silica gel with cellulose tribenzoate or cellulose trisphenylcarbamate. The effect of chiral additives on preparation of the CSPs was studied with (+)-l-mandelic acid, (−)-2-phenyl-1-propanol, (+)-1-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol and (−)-1-(1-naphthyl)ethanol as chiral additives for cellulose tribenzoate and (−)-2-phenyl-1-propanol and (+)-phenylsuccinic acid as chiral additives for cellulose trisphenylcarbamate. The results showed that chiral recognition by these stationary phases was increased in comparison with the original CSPs, especially the resolution (R _S) obtained. The method can be used to improve the efficiency of enantiomer separation by silica gel stationary phases coated with polymers.     

Chiral Analysis of Ibuprofen Residues in Water and Sediment

Abstract

Thousands of organic compounds are present in our water resources and exist in dynamic equilibrium with sediment. Among them are drug and pharmaceutical residues. Many of these residues are chiral, and their metabolites or degradation products may also be chiral in nature. Therefore, the determination of chiral ratio of these chiral compounds is required to predict the exact toxicities. The present article describes the presence of ibuprofen, the third most popular clinically used drug in the world, in water resources, its enantiomeric degradation, and the monitoring of chiral ratio of ibuprofen enantiomers and its degradation products. Attempts have also been made to describe the future scope of chiral analyses of drug and pharmaceutical residues in the environment.     

手性磷酸在不对称反应中的应用

手性磷酸催化剂因其在不对称催化反应中表现出的高效、高对映选择性而受到人们越来越多的关注.含1,1'-联二萘酚(BINOL)骨架的手性磷酸类催化剂已被广泛用于亚胺的不对称氢转移、Friedel-Crafts反应和Mannich反应等许多重要的有机合成反应.手性磷酸具有同时提供质子和接受质子的双功能作用,因此可以同时活化两个反应底物.含BINOL骨架的手性磷酸可以通过改变BINOL骨架3,3'-位上的取代基调控空间位阻和手性磷酸的酸性,因此可以调节反应的对映选择性.为了合理地设计新的手性磷酸催化剂,扩大其应用范围,最近人们对手性磷酸不对称催化反应机理进行了初步的理论计算研究并取得了显著进展.综述了手性磷酸在不对称反应中的部分研究工作,尤其是理论研究领域的最新成果.     

Mechanistic Principles in Chiral Separations Using Liquid Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis

Due to the importance of chiral separations of drugs, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and xenobiotics by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and capillary electrophoresis (CE), it is important to have the knowledge of the enantiomeric recognition mechanisms so that scientists may design and module the new chiral selectors for rapid, inexpensive and reproducible chiral separations; specially at preparative scale. The mechanisms of the chiral separation by HPLC and CE using polysaccharides, cyclodextrins, macrocyclic glycopeptide antibiotics, Pirkle type, ligand exchangers, crown ethers and other several types of chiral selectors have been discussed. Various complex formation and different types of interactions responsible for chiral resolution have been presented in detail.     

Single‐Layered Chiral Nanosheets with Dual Chiral Void Spaces for Highly Efficient Enantiomer Absorption

Although considerable effort in recent years has been devoted to the development of two‐dimensional nanostructures, single‐layered chiral sheet structures with a lateral assembly of discrete clusters remain elusive. Here, we report single‐layered chiral 2D sheet structures with dual chiral void spaces in which discrete clusters of planar aromatic segments are arranged with in‐plane AB order in aqueous methanol solution. The chirality of the sheet is induced by the slipped‐cofacial stacks of rectangular plate‐like aromatic segments in the discrete clusters which are arranged laterally with up and down packing, resulting in dual chiral void spaces. The chiral nanosheets function as superfast enantiomer separation nanomaterials, which rapidly absorb a single enantiomer from a racemic mixture with greater than 99 % ee.     

Chiral benzimidazoles and their applications in stereodiscrimination processes

Chiral aspects of benzimidazoles have been over-shadowed for a long time due to the large number of reports on benzimidazoles in the medical field in numerous categories of therapeutic agents. The vigorous research activity in chiral applications of benzimidazole derivatives started after bifunctional benzimidazoles made their appearance especially in the last 2–3 decades. Thus, chiral benzimidazoles form a comparatively young branch of chiral chemistry. The presence of pyridine and pyrrole type of nitrogens along with the fused benzene ring confer on this class of molecules, special properties including useful nucleophilicity, hydrogen bonding ability and a rigid backbone, all of which play decisive roles in proven chiral applications. The present review aims to cover the synthetic routes to access chiral benzimidazoles and their applications in a plethora of chiral fields including enantioselective organocatalysis, metal-based catalysis, asymmetric transformations involving benzimidazole-N-heterocyclic carbenes, kinetic resolution, benzimidazole-based macrocyclic hosts in chiral supramolecular chemistry and other miscellaneous chiral applications.     

取代法合成手性硫脲

以非手性或手性胺取代对称1,3-二苯基硫脲, 合成了一系列非手性和手性硫脲, 并取得了较高的产率. 对所有新化合物都通过IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, HRMS进行了全面的表征. 对手性硫脲7d单晶的X射线衍射分析表明, 在一个单元中有两种不同构象的分子, 它们的主要差别在于两个苯环的取向.     

Chiral supramolecular thiophene fluorophore consisting of thiophenecarboxylic acid derivatives

Solid-state chiral supramolecular thiophene fluorophore has been successfully prepared by using chiral (R)-1-(2-naphthyl)ethylamine and 5-bromothiophene-2-carboxylic acid. This chiral supramolecular thiophene fluorophore is formed by assembling chiral 2₁-helical columnar network structures composed of (R)-1-(2-naphthyl)ethylamine and 5-bromothiophene-2-carboxylic acid. This supramolecular organic fluorophore exhibits circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) even in the solid state.