Enantioseparation of Novel Chiral Tetrahedral Clusters on an Amylose Tris-(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) Chiral Stationary Phase by Normal Phase HPLC

Introduction In recent years, chiral transition metal cluster has at-tracted a great deal of interests due to its potential ap-plication in asymmetric catalytic reaction.1-3 Producing catalysis for asymmetric induction using a rigid chiral framework would not only bring a basically conceptual breakthrough in the asymmetric catalysis, but also en-rich the methodology in the design of new chiral cata-lysts.4 So far, a lot of chiral clusters have been re-ported,5-9 but only a few of them have bee…

Enantioseparation of Novel Chiral Tetrahedral Clusters on an Amylose Tris-(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) Chiral Stationary Phase by Normal Phase HPLC

Amylose tris(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) (ADMPC) coated on a kind of small particle silica gel was pre-pared. On this ADMPC chiral stationary phase (CSP), the direct enantiomeric separation of six novel chiral transi-tion metal tetrahedral clusters has firstly been achieved using n-hexane as the mobile phase containing various al-cohols as modifiers. The effect of mobile phase modifiers and the structural variation of the solutes on their reten-tion factors (k) and resolutions (Rs) were investigated. The result suggests that not only the structure and concentra-tion of alcohol in mobile phase, but also the structural differences in racemates can have a pronounced effect on enantiomeric separation. ADMPC-CSP is a suitable CSP for the optical resolution of chiral tetrahedral cluster by HPLC.