Enantioselective reduction of ketophosphonates using chiral acid adducts with sodium borohydride

A method for asymmetric reduction of α-and β-ketophosphonates using a chiral complex prepared from sodium borohydride and D-or L-tartaric acid is developed. Reduction of α-or β-ketophosphonates by these reagents led to formation of corresponding (S)-or (R)-hydroxyphosphonates. Reduction of chiral di(1R,2S,5R)-menthylketophosphonates by the chiral complex NaBH₄/(R,R)-tartaric acid due to the dual compliant asymmetric induction resulted in increased stereoselectivity of the reaction and led to formation of the hydroxyphosphonates with ee 90% or higher. On the other hand, reduction of di(1R,2S,5R)-methylketophosphonates by the chiral complex NaBH₄/(S,S)-tartaric acid proceeded as non-compliant dual asymmetric induction and resulted in decreased reaction stereoselectivity leading to formation of hydroxyphosphonates with ～45–60% ee. The developed methodology was applied to the synthesis of (R)-phosphocarnitine in multigram amounts.     

Enantioselective aldol reaction mediated by chiral lithium amide bases

Highly enantioselective aldol reaction mediated by chiral lithium amide bases was achieved between some methylketones and aldehydes     

Enantioselective recognition of mandelic acid by a 3,6-dithiophen-2-yl-9H-carbazole-based chiral fluorescent bisboronic acid sensor

We have prepared chiral fluorescent bisboronic acid sensors with 3,6-dithiophen-2-yl-9H-carbazole as the fluorophore. The thiophene moiety was used to extend the π-conjugation framework of the fluorophore in order to red-shift the fluorescence emission and, at the same time, to enhance the novel process where the fluorophore serves as the electron donor of the photoinduced electron transfer process (d-PET) of the boronic acid sensors; i.e., the background fluorescence of the sensor 1 at acidic pH is weaker compared to that at neutral or basic pH, in stark contrast to the typical a-PET boronic acid sensors (where the fluorophore serves as the electron acceptor of the photoinduced electron transfer process). The benefit of the d-PET boronic acid sensors is that the recognition of the hydroxylic acids can be achieved at acidic pH. We found that the thiophene moiety is an efficient π-conjugation linker and electron donor; as a result, the d-PET contrast ratio of the sensors upon variation of the pH is improved 10-fold when compared to the previously reported d-PET sensors without the thiophene moiety. Enantioselective recognition of tartaric acid was achieved at acid pH, and the enantioselectivity (total response K(D)I(F)(D)/K(L)I(F)(L)) is 3.3. The fluorescence enhancement (I(F)(Sample)/I(F)(Blank)) of sensor 1 upon binding with tartaric acid is 3.5-fold at pH 3.0. With the fluorescent bisboronic acid sensor 1, enantioselective recognition of mandelic acid was achieved for the first time. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the mandelic acid has been enantioselectively recognized using a chiral fluorescent boronic acid sensor. Chiral monoboronic acid sensor 2 and bisboronic acid sensor 3 without the thiophene moiety failed to enantioselectively recognize mandelic acid. Our findings with the thiophene-incorporated boronic acid sensors will be important for the design of d-PET fluorescent sensors for the enantioselective recognition of α-hydroxylic acids such as mandelic acid, given that it is currently a challenge to recognize these analytes with boronic acid fluorescent molecular sensors.     

立体选择性萃取分离反式DV菊酸对映体

研究了反式DV菊酸对映体在含有手性选择体酒石酸酯的水-有机相双相体系中的萃取分配行为,考察了有机稀释剂种类、酒石酸酯的浓度、温度、水相的pH值、酒石酸酯烷基链长度对分配系数(D)和分配因子(α)的影响.研究表明:三氯甲烷作稀释剂时萃取分离效果较好;温度升高使分配系数增大,分离因子减小;分配系数随pH的升高而降低,随着酒石酸酯浓度的增大而增大,分离因子随pH的升高和酒石酸酯浓度的增大先增加后降低,pH和酒石酸酯浓度分别为4.50和0.40mol/L时取得较好的分离效果;取代烷基链长对分配系数(D)和分离因子(α)亦有较大影响.     

酒石酸酯立体选择性萃取分离功夫菊酸对映体

研究了功夫菊酸对映体在含有手性选择剂酒石酸酯的水-有机相双相体系中的萃取分配行为,考察了水相的pH、酒石酸酯的浓度、磷酸盐浓度、温度和酒石酸酯烷基链长度对分配系数(K)和分离因子(α)的影响.研究结果表明:分配系数(K)随pH的升高而降低,随着酒石酸酯浓度的增大而增大,分离因子(α)随pH的升高和酒石酸酯浓度的增大先增加后降低,pH和酒石酸酯浓度分别为5.50和0.30 mol/L时取得较好的分离效果;分配系数(K)和分离因子(α)都随磷酸盐浓度增大而减小;温度、取代烷基链长对分配系数(K)和分离因子(α)亦有较大影响.     

Enantioselective synthesis of the optically active alpha-methylene-beta-hydroxy esters, equivalent compounds to Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts, using successive asymmetric aldol reaction and oxidative deselenization

[Chemical reaction: See text] The asymmetric aldol reaction of a tetra-substituted ketene silyl acetal including an alkylseleno group with aldehydes has been developed by the promotion of Sn(OTf)2 coordinated with a chiral diamine to afford the corresponding aldols having chiral quaternary centers at the alpha-positions. The facile oxidative deselenization of these aldol compounds produces optically active alpha-methylene-beta-hydroxy esters which correspond to adducts prepared by the asymmetric Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction.     

Enantioselective aldol reaction of chiral acyl thiazolidine thione derived boron enolates

The compatability of an acyl thiazolidine thione as a chiral auxillary in boron enolate chemistry has been demonstrated by an enantioselective aldol condensation. The aldol products provide direct access to chiral β-lactams.     

A highly enantioselective chiral Schiff-base fluorescent sensor for mandelic acid

A chiral Schiff-base compound, 4-methyl-2,6-bis-[(2-hydroxy-1-phenylethylimino)methyl]phenol, is found to act as highly enantioselective fluorescent agent for α-hydroxycarboxylic acid, e.g., mandelic acid. It is observed that, within a certain concentration range, one enantiomer of the chiral acid can increase the fluorescence intensity of the Schiff-base compound 122-fold while the other enantiomer enhances the intensity only 42-fold. Such highly enantioselective responses towards the chiral acid make the unusual Schiff-base compound attractive as a fluorescent sensor for determining the enantiomeric composition of α-hydroxycarboxylic acids.     

Enantioselective direct aldol reaction "on water" promoted by chiral organic catalysts

[structure: see text]. 1,1'-Binaphthyl-2,2'-diamine-based (S)-prolinamides in the presence of stearic acid were able to promote the direct aldol condensation of cyclohexanone and other ketones with different aldehydes in the presence of a massive amount of water in very good yields, high diastereoselectivity, and up to 99% ee. The behavior of both C2- and C1-symmetric catalysts in combination with different additives was investigated, and a preliminary experiment of recovering and recycling of the catalytic system was also attempted.     

Aza-crown macrocycles as chiral solvating agents for mandelic acid derivatives

A series of new chiral macrocycles containing the trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane (DACH) subunit and arene- and oligoethylene glycol-derived spacers has been prepared in enantiomerically pure form. Four of the macrocycles have been characterized by X-ray crystallography, which reveals a consistent mode of intramolecular N-H···N hydrogen bonding and conformational variations about the N-benzylic bonds. Most of the macrocycles were found to differentiate the enantiomers of mandelic acid (MA) by (1)H NMR spectroscopy in CDCl(3); within the series of macrocycles tested, enantiodiscrimination was promoted by (i) a meta-linkage geometry about the arene spacer, (ii) the presence of naphthalene- rather than phenylene-derived arene spacers, and (iii) increasing length of the oligoethylene glycol bridge. (1)H NMR titrations were performed with optically pure MA samples, and the data were fitted to a simultaneous 1:1 and 2:1 binding model, yielding estimates of 2:1 binding constants between some of the macrocycles and MA enantiomers. In several cases, NOESY spectra of the MA:macrocycle complexes show differential intramolecular correlations between protons adjacent to the amine and carboxylic acid groups of the macrocycles and MA enantiomers, respectively, thus demonstrating geometric differences between the diastereomeric intermolecular complexes. The three most effective macrocycles were employed as chiral solvating agents (CSAs) to determine the enantiomeric excess (ee) of 18 MA samples over a wide ee range and with very high accuracy (1% absolute error).     

Enantioselective fluorescent recognition of mandelic acid by unsymmetrical salalen and salan sensors

As sensors with multiple chiral centers, salalen 1 and salan 2 composed of trans-cyclohexane-1,2-diamine (trans-DACH) and 1,1'-bi-2-naphthol (BINOL) units were designed and synthesized. Fluorescent recognition studies of resulting sensors towards mandelic acid (MA) reveal that salan 2a containing (R)-BINOL and (R,R)-DACH exhibits highly sensitive and enantioselective response towards MA. The relationship between the chirality combination and the enantioselectivity is discussed. Based on the studies of concentration and solvent effect on the recognition process of 2a, it was found that the sensitivity and enantioselectivity could be enhanced via changing the concentration of sensors or altering the polarity of solvents. To explain why higher enantioselectivity can be achieved in moderate polar solvent other than in nonpolar or polar solvent, a solvent-guest competition mechanism, which may shed a light on the enhancement of the enantioselectivity of chiral recognition and noncovalent asymmetric catalysis, has been proposed and validated.     

The tetrahydropyranyl-protected mandelic acid: a novel versatile chiral derivatising agent

A simple synthesis of (2R)-2-phenyl-2-[(2S)-tetrahydro-2-pyranyloxy]ethanoic acid, a versatile chiral derivatising agent (CDA), is proposed. The derivatisation of secondary alcohols aimed at the absolute configurational assignment, determination of enantiomeric purity as well as semipreparative resolution is described.     

Enantioselective hydrogenation of β-keto esters catalyzed by chiral binaphthylbisphosphine ruthenium complexes

The catalytic activity and the enantioselectivity manifested by cationic chiral binaphthylbisphosphine ruthenium complexes in asymmetric hydrogenation of β-keto esters were studied. The effects of the nature of the solvent, the reaction temperature, the pressure, addition of acids, and the reagent ratio on the yield and the degree of enantiomeric enrichment of the reaction products were examined. For hydrogenation of ethyl 4-chloroacetoacetate to form (R)- or (S)-enantiomers of ethyl 4-chloro-3-hydroxybutyrate, conditions were found which allow one to quantitatively prepare this valuable synthon with high enantiomeric purity (97–99%) at a low concentration of the catalyst (the ratio substrate: Ru=10000). Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 725–728, April. 2000.     

Highly enantioselective fluorescent recognition of mandelic acid derivatives by chiral salen macrocycles

Calixarene-like chiral salen macrocycles can be used for the enantioselective fluorescent recognition of mandelic acid derivatives. It was observed that one enantiomer of mandelic acid causes a 28-fold increase in the fluorescence intensity of a chiral salen macrocycle, whereas the other enantiomer causes only a 14-fold fluorescence enhancement. This highly enantioselective fluorescent response makes chiral salen macrocycles useful for the enantioselective fluorescent recognition of some mandelic acid derivatives.     

Enantioselective bromocyclization of olefins catalyzed by chiral phosphoric acid

A chiral phosphoric acid catalyzed enantioselective bromocyclization of olefins is described. Various cis-, trans-, or trisubstituted γ-hydroxy-alkenes and γ-amino-alkenes can cyclize under the reaction conditions to give optically active 2-substituted tetrahydrofurans and tetrahydropyrroles in up to 91% ee.     

Chiral boron enolate aldol additions to chiral aldehydes

We have examined the double-diastereodifferentiating aldol addition reactions of chiral enolborinate 1a with chiral aldehydes leading to the corresponding aldol adducts with excellent levels of 1,5-anti diastereoselection.     

Enantioselective alkylation of beta-keto esters by phase-transfer catalysis using chiral quaternary ammonium salts

Catalytic enantioselective alkylation promoted by a quaternary ammonium salt from cinchonine as a phase transfer catalyst is described. Treatment of cyclo beta-keto esters with alkyl halide under mild reaction conditions afforded the corresponding alpha-alkylated beta-keto esters in moderate to excellent yields with high enantiomeric excesses     

Enantioselective aldol reaction catalysed by polyleucines

Polyleucines of various lengths act as enantioselective catalysts in the aldol condensation between cyclohexanone and a series of aromatic aldehydes, a reaction which may be of prebiotic significance.     

Enantioselective three-component Ugi reaction catalyzed by chiral phosphoric acid

A catalytic enantioselective three-component Ugi reaction was developed. SPINOL-derived phosphoric acid with bulky 2,4,6-tricyclohexylphenyl groups at the 6,6′ positions was found to be the best catalyst to afford α-amino amide derivatives in good to excellent yields(62% to 99%) and enantiocontrol(81% to 99% enantiomeric excess). This asymmetric reaction was applicable well to an array of aliphatic aldehydes. The gram-scale synthesis, modification of dapsone, and enantioselective synthesis of(R)-Lacosamide underline the general utility of this methodology. Influence of dihedral angles and substituents of the chiral phosphoric acids on the enantioselectivity was also discussed in this article.