Chiral activity

An interesting and practical example of the use of thermodynamic analysis is to explain and predict certain features that arise in the application of chromatography to chiral separations. The separation of enantiomers is achieved by making one or both phases chirally active so that different enantiomers will interact slightly differently with the one or both phases. In practice, it is usual to make the stationary phase comprise one specific isomer so that it offers specific selectivity to one enantiomer of the chiral solute pair. The basis of the selectivity is thought to be spatial, in that one enantiomer can approach the stationary phase closer than the other. If there is no chiral selectivity in the stationary phase, both enantiomers (being chemically identical) will coelute and will provide identical log(Vr ) against 1/T curve. If, however, one... 

Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Product (1993) Note for Guidance Investigation of Chiral Active Substances III/3501/91. 

The guideline on chiral active substances states that particular attention should be paid to identity and stereochemical purity. It states that specifications for a racemate should include a test to show that the substance is indeed a racemate and this is a position supported by the requirements of the European Pharmacopoeia for drug substance monographs [16]. 

Examples of entropically driven systems will be those employing chirally active stationary phases. 

There are two basic procedures that have been successfully used for the separation of isomers. The first is to add a chiral agent to the mobile phase such that it is adsorbed, for example, on the surface of a reverse phase, producing a chirally active surface. This approach has been discussed on page (38) in chapter 2. The alternative is to employ a stationary phase that has been produced with chiral groups bonded to the surface. 

The more useful types of chirally active bonded phases are those based on the cyclodextrins. There are a number of different types available, some of which have both dispersive or polar groups bonded close to the chirally active sites to permit mixed interactions to occur. This emphasizes the basic entropic differences between the two isomers being separated. A range of such products is available from ASTEC Inc. and a separation of the d and / isomers of scopolamine and phenylephrine are shown in figure 4. The separations were carried out on a cyclodextrin bonded phase (CYCLOBOND 1 Ac) that had been acetylated to provide semi-polar interacting groups in close proximity to the chiral centers of the cyclodextrin. The column was 25 cm long, 4.6 mm in diameter and packed with silica based spherical bonded phase particles 5pm in diameter. Most of the columns supplied by ASTEC Inc. have these dimensions and, consequently, provide a... 

Relevant issues relating to the use of chiral active ingredient(s). 

CC29a Investigation of chiral active substances (pages 381-392)... 

Note for Guidance on Investigation of Chiral Active Substances 325... 

First the primary combinatorial library of chiral ligands LI —L5 and chiral activators Al —A5 (Scheme 12) were studied in order to optimize the lead structure of the next generation of chiral ligands and activators.87,89... 

In contrast to chiral poisoning, the concept of chiral activation has also emerged recently. An additional activator selectively or preferentially activates one enantiomer of the racemic catalyst, resulting in much faster reaction, and gives products with high ee. 

The idea of enantioselective activation was first reported by Mikami and Matsukawa111 for carbonyl-ene reactions. Using an additional catalytic amount of (R)-BINOL or (/ )-5.5 -dichloro-4,4, 6,fi -tctramcthyl biphenyl as the chiral activator, (R)-ene products were obtained in high ee when a catalyst system consisting of rac-BINOL and Ti(OPri)4 was employed for the enantioselective carbonyl ene reaction of glyoxylate (Scheme 8-54). Amazingly, racemic BINOL can also be used in this system as an activator for the (R)-BINOL-Ti catalyst, affording an enhanced level of enantioselectivity (96% ee). 

Chiral active pharmaceutical ingredients, 18 725-726. See also Enantio- entries Chiral additives, 6 75—79 Chiral alcohols, synthesis of, 13 667-668 P-Chiral alcohols, synthesis of, 13 669 Chiral alkanes, synthesis of, 13 668-669 Chiral alkenes, synthesis of, 13 668—669 Chiral alkoxides, 26 929 Chiral alkynes, synthesis of, 13 668-669 Chiral ammonium ions, enantiomer recognition properties for, 16 790 Chiral ansa-metallocenes, 16 90 Chiral auxiliaries, in oxazolidinone formation, 17 738—739... 

An enantioselective catalyst must fulfill two functions (1) activate the different reactants (activation) and (2) control the stereochemical outcome of the reaction (controlling function). As an accepted general model, it is postulated that this control is achieved by specific interactions between the active centers of the catalyst, the adsorbed substrates, and the adsorbed chiral auxiliary (Figure 14.4). Experience has shown that most substrates that can be transformed in useful enantiomers have an additional functional group that can interact with the chiral active center. 

The most conventional investigations on the adsorption of both modifier and substrate looked for the effect of pH on the amount of adsorbed tartrate and MAA [200], The combined use of different techniques such as IR, UV, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), electron microscopy (EM), and electron diffraction allowed an in-depth study of adsorbed tartrate in the case of Ni catalysts [101], Using these techniques, the general consensus was that under optimized conditions a corrosive modification of the nickel surface occurs and that the tartrate molecule is chemically bonded to Ni via the two carbonyl groups. There were two suggestions as to the exact nature of the modified catalyst Sachtler [195] proposed adsorbed nickel tartrate as chiral active site, whereas Japanese [101] and Russian [201] groups preferred a direct adsorption of the tartrate on modified sites of the Ni surface. 

The intermediate phosphonite (step a) was oxidized by TBHP to give the dinucleoside methylphosphonate (step b). Selectivities of this procedure were up to 84/16 (Rp/Sp). According to previous studies by Engels and coworkers a tetrazole containing a chiral activator has little influence on the selectivity of phosphonoamidite coupling [18]. 

In contrast to asymmetric deactivation, Mikami has reported a conceptually opposite strategy, asymmetric activation. A highly activated chiral catalyst can be produced by addition of a chiral activator (Scheme 8.11). This strategy has the advantage that the activated catalyst can afford products with a higher enantiomeric... 

Ene reactions catalyzed by enantiopure (R)-9 can also be achieved with (7 )-BINOL as a chiral activator (Table 8.3). The reaction proceeds to give higher chemical yield (82.1 %) and enantioselectivity (96.8% ee) than those attained without the additional BINOL activator (19.8%, 94.5% ee) (entry 1 vs. 2). Kinetic studies indicate that the reaction catalyzed by (/f)-BESfOLato-Ti(0 Pr)2/(/f)-BESfOL complex ((/f,/ act)-9) is 25.6 times as fast as that catalyzed by (R)-9. These results imply that ( )-9 and a half-molar amount of (/f)-BINOL complex give (/f,/ act)-9, leaving (S)-9 uncomplexed. In contrast, (5)-BINOL activates (R)-9 to a smaller degree (entry 3), giving lower optical (86.0% ee) and chemical (48.0%) yields than with (K)-BINOL. 

A similar enantiomer-selective activation has been observed for aldol " and hetero-Diels-Alder reactions.Asymmetric activation of (R)-9 by (/f)-BINOL is also effective in giving higher enantioselectivity (97% ee) than those by the parent (R)-9 (91% ee) in the aldol reaction of silyl enol ethers (Scheme 8.12a). Asymmetric activation of R)-9 by (/f)-BINOL is the key to provide higher enantioselectivity (84% ee) than those obtained by (R)-9 (5% ee) in the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction with Danishefsky s diene (Scheme 8.12b). Activation with (/ )-6-Br-BINOL gives lower yield (25%) and enantioselectivity (43% ee) than the one using (/f)-BINOL (50%, 84% ee). One can see that not only steric but also electronic factors are important in a chiral activator. 

A symmetric activation is also observed in the combination of (/f)-BINOL and Zr(0 Bu)4, which promotes enantioselective synthesis of homoallylic alcohols (Scheme 8.13). A 2 1 ratio of (/ )-BINOL and Zr(0 Bu)4 without any other chiral source affords the homoallylic alcohol product in 27% ee and 44% yield. Addition of (7 )-(+)-a-methyl-2-naphthalenemethanol ((/ )-MNM) leads to higher enantiomeric excess (53% ee) than those using only (7 )-BINOL. Therefore, (7 )-MNM can act as a chiral activator a higher ee can be achieved via activation of the allylation of benzaldehyde by addition of (7 )-MNM as a product-like activator. 

Sharpless et al. coined the word ligand-accelerated catalysis (LAC), which means the construction of an active chiral catalyst from an achiral precatalyst via ligand exchange with a chiral ligand. By contrast, a combinatorial library approach in which an achiral pre-catalyst combined with several chiral ligand components (L, L, —) may selectively assemble in the presence of several chiral activators (A, A, —) into the most catalytically active and enantioselective activated catalyst (ML A" ) (Scheme 8.16). ... 

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