Lariat ethers in the chiral recognition of amino acid esters:electrospray ionization mass spectrometry investigation |
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Authors: | Zemfira A Bredikhina Dilyara R Sharafutdinova Olga B Bazanova Vasily M Babaev Robert R Fayzullin Ildar Kh Rizvanov Alexander A Bredikhin |
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Institution: | 1. A.E. Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry, Kazan Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Arbuzov St. 8, Kazan, 420088, Russia
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Abstract: | The ability of the crown ethers (1–4), containing the ortho- or para- methoxyphenoxy-methyl substituents in their structure, to chiral recognition in reference to amino acid esters has been investigated by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). The method allows registering the diastereomeric complexes between the studied crowns as hosts and the protonated alanine, phenylglycine and phenylalanine methyl esters as guests in the gas phase. ESI-MS experiments using isotopically labeled guests provide robust and reproducible results, indicating a moderate degree of chiral discrimination in the series of the studied crown ethers. ESI-MS experiments using achiral amine as a reference yielded the results comparable with the previous method. It has been found that (S)-enantiomers of the crowns bind predominately (S)-enantiomers of the amino acid esters, and vice-versa. It has been shown that the chiral ortho-substituted crown (S)-1 demonstrates the more pronounced values for chiral discrimination as compared with the para-substituted crown (S)-2. This fact indicates the interrelationship between the chiral recognition and the lariat nature of crown 1. Increasing the size of the cavity and the presence of a flat aromatic moiety in crowns 3 and 4 strengthens their complexing ability, simultaneously weakening the enantioselectivity of the complexation. |
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