| Abstract: | The resolution of 2-methylproline and the assignment of absolute configuration to the stereoisomer has been carried out. The L-enantiomer was obtained from the fractional crystallization of the quinine salt of (?)-N-carbobenzoxy-2-methylproline and the D-enantiomer from the collected filtrates. The (?)-2-methylproline was assigned the L-configuration by means of the Clough-Lutz-Jirgensons method. Polymers were obtained in bulk from the N-carboxyanhydrides. Although polymers obtained from different solvents exhibited different solubility properties, subsequent spectral studies indicated that this effect was not due to a large conformational change as in the polyproline case. Spectral evidence suggests that poly(2-methylproline) (P2MP) exists as a polyproline type II helix. |
