A study on the chiral recognition mechanism of enantioseparation of adrenaline and its analogues using capillary electrophoresis

The purpose of this paper was to study the chiral recognition mechanism of enantioseparation of adrenaline and its analogues using capillary electrophoresis. The enantiomeric separation of adrenaline and its analogues has been developed using beta-cyclodextrins as the chiral selectors. All the tested compounds were separated under the same experimental conditions to study the chiral recognition mechanisms, using a low-pH buffer (50 mM Tris buffer at pH 2.5). By means of molecular docking the inclusion course between beta-cyclodextrins and enantiomers was investigated and thus the interaction energy was obtained by molecular mechanics calculations. The results suggest that the difference in interaction energy for the side chain part is most likely responsible for enantiomeric separation.     

Spectrophotometric and calorimetric titration studies on molecular recognition of camphor and borneol by nucleobase-modified beta-cyclodextrins

A series of modified beta-cyclodextrins with nucleobase substituents, that is, mono(6-ade-6-deoxy)-beta-cyclodextrin (2) and mono(6-ura-6-deoxy)-beta-cyclodextrin (3) as well as mono(6-thy-6-deoxy)-beta-cyclodextrin (4), were selected as molecular receptors to investigate their conformation and inclusion complexation behaviors with some chiral molecules, that is, (+)-camphor, (-)-camphor, (+)-borneol, and (-)-borneol, by spectrophotometric and microcalorimetric titrations in aqueous phosphate buffer solution (pH 7.2) at 298.15 K. Circular dichroism and NMR studies demonstrated that these nucleobase-modified beta-cyclodextrins adopted a co-inclusion mode upon complexation with guest molecules; that is, the originally self-included nucleobase substituents of the host did not move out from the beta-cyclodextrin cavity, but coexisted with guest molecule in the beta-cyclodextrin cavity upon inclusion complexation. Significantly, these nucleobase-modified beta-cyclodextrins efficiently enhanced the molecular binding ability and the chiral recognition ability of native beta-cyclodextrin, displaying enantioselectivity up to 3.7 for (+)-camphor/(-)-camphor pair by 2 and 3.5 for (-)-borneol/(+)-borneol pair by 3. The enhanced molecular/chiral recognition abilities of 2-4 toward (+/-)-camphor were mainly attributed to the increased entropic gains due to the extensive desolvation effects, while the favorable enthalpic gains originating from the good size-fit relationship as well as the hydrogen bond interactions between host and guest result in the enhanced molecular/chiral recognition abilities of 2-4 toward (+/-)-borneol.     

Molecularly imprinted polymer based enantioselective sensing devices: A review

Chiral recognition is the fundamental property of many biological molecules and is a quite important field in pharmaceutical analysis because of the pharmacologically different activities of enantiomers in living systems. Enantio-differentiating signal of the sensor requires specific interaction between the chiral compounds (one or a mixture of enantiomers) in question and the selector. This type of interaction is controlled normally by at least three binding centers, whose mutual arrangement and interacting characteristics with one of the enantiomers effectively control the selectivity of recognition. Molecular imprinting technology provides a unique opportunity for the creation of three-dimensional cavities with tailored recognition properties. Over the past decade, this field has expanded considerably across the variety of disciplines, leading to novel transduction approaches and many potential applications. The state-of-art of molecularly imprinted polymer-based chiral recognition might set an exotic trend toward the development of chiral sensors. The objective of this review is to provide comprehensive knowledge and information to all researchers who are interested in exploiting molecular imprinting technology toward the rational design of chiral sensors operating on different transduction principles, ranging from electrochemical to piezoelectric, being used for the detection of chiral compounds as they pose significant impact on the understanding of the origin of life and all processes that occur in living organisms.     

Synthesis of new chiral fluorescent sensors and their applications in enantioselective discrimination

Five novel sensors (R,R)-3–6 and (S, S)-6 were synthesized and developed for enantioselective recognition of chiral compounds. Sensor 6 with two thiourea groups and steric π-conjugation frameworks could discriminate different chiral substrates, including acidic compounds, basic compounds, and neutral compounds. These results disclosed that the outstanding performance of enantioselective discrimination could be attributed to the thiourea group which acted as a hydrogen-bonding donor and the bulky steric moiety of the hosts which provided appropriate chiral environment. This result will be of great practical value in the designation of chiral sensors and high-throughput assay of chiral products.     

Development of Enantioselective Fluorescent Sensors for Chiral Recognition

Novel chiral compounds have been synthesized for the enantioselective fluorescent recognition of alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acids and amino acids. By introducing dendritic branches to the chiral receptor units, the fluorescence signals of the receptors are significantly amplified because of the light-harvesting effect of the dendritic structure. This has greatly increased the sensitivity of the sensors in the fluorescent recognition. Highly enantioselective fluorescent responses have also been ac…     

Fluorescent sensors for the enantioselective recognition of mandelic acid: signal amplification by dendritic branching

Novel chiral bisbinaphthyl compounds have been synthesized for the enantioselective fluorescent recognition of mandelic acid. By introducing dendritic branches to the chiral receptor unit, the fluorescence signals of the receptors are significantly amplified because of the light-harvesting effect of the dendritic structure. This has greatly increased the sensitivity of the sensors in the fluorescent recognition. Study of the three generation sensors demonstrates that the generation zero sensor is the best choice for the recognition of mandelic acid because of its greatly increased fluorescence signal over the core and its high enantioselectivity. This sensor is potentially useful for the high throughput screening of chiral catalysts for the asymmetric synthesis of alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acids.     

磺化β-环糊精的合成及其在毛细管电泳手性拆分中的应用

 采用直接磺化法合成了 3种不同取代度的磺化β-环糊精 ,并对合成产物进行了表征。将这 3种负电性的β-环糊精衍生物应用于毛细管电泳手性化合物的拆分研究中 ,考察了不同 p H值和不同电极性条件下负电性磺化β-环糊精对手性化合物的立体选择作用。     

Novel chiral conjugated macromolecules for potential electrical and optical applications

Optically active 1,1′‐binaphthyl molecules have been used to construct novel chiral dendrimers and linear polymers. Efficient light harvesting effects of the dendrimers have been observed. They have shown enantioselective fluorescence responses in the presence of chiral amino alcohol quenchers. They are potentially useful as fluorescent sensors for the recognition of chiral organic compounds. Linear binaphthyl polymers have shown strong light emitting properties. Their colors of emission can be systematically tuned by incorporating linkers of various conjugation length. A very efficient light emitting diode has been prepared from the binaphthyl‐based conjugated polymers. Nonlinear optical chromophores have been organized in the chiral binaphthyl polymer chains to construct noncentrosymmetric and multipolar materials. These novel propeller‐like polymers have shown significant second‐order nonlinear optical effects.     

手性荧光传感器的研究进展

随着手性化合物在制药、不对称合成、生物科学及临床医学等领域应用的增长,迫切需要发展一种快速、灵敏的对映异构体检测技术。手性荧光传感器引起了人们的高度关注。近年来,发展了很多手性荧光传感器并对手性化合物表现出较高的选择性和灵敏度。该文综述了以1,1'-联-2-萘酚衍生物、杯芳烃衍生物、高分子聚合物、纳米材料、金属有机多孔材料为骨架的手性荧光传感器,总结了其在手性化合物识别中的应用,并展望了手性荧光传感器的发展方向。     

A Green and Wide-Scope Approach for Chiroptical Sensing of Organic Molecules through Biomimetic Recognition in Water

Optical chirality sensing has attracted a lot of interest due to its potential in high-throughput screening in chirality analysis. A molecular sensor is required to convert the chirality of analytes into optical signals. Although many molecular sensors have been reported, sensors with wide substrate scope remain to be developed. Herein, we report that the amide naphthotube-based chirality sensors have an unprecedented wide scope for chiroptical sensing of organic molecules. The substrates include, but are not limited to common organic products in asymmetric catalysis, chiral molecules with inert groups or remote functional groups from their chiral centers, natural products and their derivatives, and chiral drugs. The effective chirality sensing is based on biomimetic recognition in water and on effective chirality transfer through guest-induced formation of a chiral conformation of the sensors. Furthermore, the sensors can be used in real-time monitoring on reaction kinetics in water and in determining absolute configurations and ee values of the products in asymmetric catalysis.     

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.     

Synthesis and enantioselective fluorescent sensors for amino acid derivatives based on BINOL

Four novel derivatives of 1,1′-bi-2-naphthol have been prepared and the structures of these compounds characterised by IR, MS, ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. The enantioselective recognition of these sensors has been studied by fluorescence titration and ¹H NMR spectroscopy. The sensors exhibited different chiral recognition abilities towards N-Boc-protected amino acid anions and formed 1:1 complexes between the host and the guest. Sensors exhibit excellent enantioselective fluorescent recognition ability towards the amino acid derivatives.     

Synthesis of new chiral fluorescent sensors and their applications in enantioselective discrimination

New chiral fluorescent sensors derived from tetraphenylethylene and proline hydrazide were synthesized and applied in the chiral recognition of various chiral compounds, including unprotected amino acids, acidic compounds, chiral amines and even neutral alcohols. These results demonstrated that the excellent enantioselective response ability to various chiral substrates could be attributed to the –NH moieties of pyrrolidine ring and thiourea unit which acted as hydrogen-bonding donors. This result is of potential significance in enantiomeric discrimination and high-throughput analysis of the enantiomeric purity of chiral guests.     

Enantioseparation of dihydrofurocoumarin derivatives by various separation modes of capillary electrophoresis

Chiral dihydrofurocoumarin compounds are currently the focus of industrial and pharmacological research. These derivatives have been shown to possess many physiological properties that could be medically beneficial. This work proposes four different chiral separation methods using capillary electrophoresis and micellar capillary electrophoresis (MCE). Several different cyclodextrin chiral selectors were examined to evaluate their effectiveness in the enantioseparation of dihydrofurocoumarins. In addition, the effects of the chiral selector concentration, the presence of an organic modifier, run buffer pH, and in two cases, the ratio between the chiral selector and an additional charged pseudophase were investigated. Overall, the best separations for this class of chiral compounds were achieved using sulfated beta-cyclodextrins at low pH in the reversed polarity mode.     

Synthesis of phosphoryl-tethered beta-cyclodextrins and their molecular and chiral recognition thermodynamics

Two novel phosphoryl-bridged bis- and tris(beta-cyclodextrin)s of different tether lengths, i.e., bis[m-(N-(6-cyclodextryl)-2-aminoethylaminosulfonyl)phenyl]-m-(chlorosulfonyl)phenylphosphine oxide (5) and tris[m-(N-(6-cyclodextryl)-8-amino-3,6-diazaoctylaminosulfonyl)phenyl]phosphine oxide (6), have been synthesized by reactions of 6-oligo(ethylenediamino)-6-deoxy-beta-cyclodextrins with tris[m-(chlorosulfonyl)phenyl]phosphine oxide. The complex stability constants (K(S)), standard molar enthalpy (Delta H degrees ), and entropy changes (Delta S degrees ) were determined at 25 degrees C for the inclusion complexation of phosphoryl-modified bis- and tris-cyclodextrins (5 and 6, respectively), mono[6-O-(ethoxyhydroxyphosphoryl)]-beta-cyclodextrin (2), mono[6-O-(diethylamino-ethoxyphosphoryl)]-beta-cyclodextrin (3), and mono[6-O-(diphenoxyphosphoryl)]-beta-cyclodextrin (4) with representative alicyclic and N-Cbz-D/L-alanine guests in 0.1 M phosphate buffer solution at pH 7.2 by means of titration microcalorimetry. The thermodynamic parameters obtained indicate that the charge-dipole interaction between the phosphoryl moiety and the negatively charged guests, as well as the conformational difference of modified beta-cyclodextrins in aqueous solution, significantly contribute to the inclusion complexation and the enhanced chiral discrimination. The interactions and binding modes between the hosts and chiral guests were further studied by two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy to elucidate the influence of the structural features of hosts on their increased chiral recognition ability and to establish the correlation between the conformation of the resulting complexes and the thermodynamic parameters obtained.     

Separation of enantiomers: needs, challenges, perspectives

Chiral drugs, agrochemicals, food additives and fragrances represent classes of compounds with high economic and scientific potential. First the present implications of their chiral nature and necessity of separating enantiomers are summarised in this article. In the following a brief overview of the actual approaches to perform enantioseparations at analytical and preparative scale is given. Challenging aspects of these strategies, such as problems associated with data management, choice of suitable chiral selectors for given enantioseparations and enhanced understanding of the underlying chiral recognition principles, are discussed. Alternatives capable of meeting the requirements of industrial processes, in terms of productivity, cost-effectiveness and environmental issues (e.g., enantioselective membranes) are critically reviewed. The impact of combinatorial methodologies on faster and more effective development and optimisation of novel chiral selectors is outlined. Finally, the merits and limitations of most recent trends in discrimination of enantiomers, including advances in the fields of sensors, microanalysis systems, chiroptical methods and chemical force microscopy are evaluated.     

A comparison of phosphated and sulfated beta-cyclodextrins as chiral selectors for capillary electrophoresis

The enantioseparation capabilities of three different functionalized beta-cyclodextrins, two sulfated beta-cyclodextrins with 4 and 15 nominal degrees of substitution and a phosphated beta-cyclodextrin with 8 degrees of substitution, were compared. While anodic detection was used with both sulfated cyclodextrins, the phosphated cyclodextrin required cathodic detection suggesting either lower ionization of the phosphated cyclodextrin or generally lower affinity of the analytes for the phosphated cyclodextrin. The effects of several experimental parameters were evaluated with respect to enantioseparation. The degrees of substitution of the cyclodextrin, pH of the background electrolyte as well as the concentration of the functionalized beta-cyclodextrin, each had a significant influence on the successful enantiomeric separation of the chiral drugs investigated.     

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.     

Application of sulfobutylether-beta-cyclodextrin with specific degrees of substitution for the enantioseparation of pharmaceutical mixtures by capillary electrophoresis.

In this research the separation of the enantiomers of the basic drug bidisomide (SC-40230) from five closely related known process impurities was investigated using several neutral and anionic sulfobutylether beta-cyclodextrins (SBE-beta-CDs) as isomer selectors. Several novel sulfobutylether derivative mixtures and purified charge types having a specific degree of substitution were used to study the effect of selector charge on the efficiency and selectivity of both chiral and achiral separations. The effects of run buffer pH, selector type, and selector concentration on the chiral separation of bidisomide and the achiral separation of the related process impurities was also investigated. The related process impurity, SC-47500, displayed significant peak tailing with SBE-beta-CD mixtures which contained mono- to deca-substituted cyclodextrins. This problem was explored using isolated SBE-beta-CD charge types having degrees of substitution from one to seven. Peak tailing increased as the charge on the selector increased, suggesting that the distortion was due to electrodispersion and the large countercurrent mobility of the negatively charged complexes. Pure charge types having a lower degree of substitution provided adequate chiral and achiral selectivity, while eliminating the severe peak distortion caused by electrodispersion. The complete analysis of the bidisomide enantiomers and the related impurities was achieved with a pH 2.5 running buffer containing 5-10 mM of the isolated sulfobutylether charge types SBE[2]ds(1)sr-beta-CD or SBE[3]ds(1)sr-beta-CD. These conditions gave baseline resolution of bidisomide enantiomers and all five impurities, thus allowing both chiral and achiral purity to be determined in a single run.     

Chiral polymer-based biointerface materials

Chirality is a unique phenomenon in nature. Chiral interactions play an important role in biological and physiological processes, which provides much inspiration for scientists to develop chiral materials. As a breakthrough from traditional materials, biointerface materials based on chiral polymers have attracted increasing interest over the past few years. Such materials elegantly combine the advantages of chiral surfaces and traditional polymers, and provide a novel solution not only for the investigation of chiral interaction mechanisms but also for the design of biomaterials with diverse applications, such as in tissue engineering and biocompatible materials, bioregulation, chiral separation and chiral sensors. Herein, we summarize recent advances in the study of chiral effects and applications of chiral polymer-based biointerface materials, and also present some challenges and perspectives.