Chiral crystal lattice

Penzien and Schmidt reported the first absolute asymmetric transformation in a chiral crystal. [10] They showed that enone 4,4 -dimethylchalcone 1, although being achiral itself, crystallizes spontaneously in the chiral space group P2 2 2 (Scheme 1). When single crystals of this material are treated with bromine vapor in a gas-solid reaction, the chiral dibromide 2 is produced in 6-25% ee. In this elegant experiment, it is the reaction medium, the chiral crystal lattice, that provides the asymmetric influence favoring the formation of one product enantiomer over the other, and the chemist has merely provided a non-chiral solvent (ethyl acetate) for the crystallization and a nonchiral reagent (bromine) for the reaction. 

Chiral crystal from achiral molecule Chiral crystal lattice Moderate-high enantiodifferentiation... 

The enantioselective reaction mechanism can be explained by considering the photochemical aspects and also the molecular arrangements (Scheme 36 and Fig. 7). Hydroacridine radical species 155 and 156, which satisfy both such conditions, should be preferably produced with their higher stability. Next, decarboxylation of 154 gives the diphenylmethyl radical 150. In the chiral crystal lattice of M-150 DPA, the molecular pairs of acridine and diphenyl acetic acid stack with... 

Asymmetric induction in the di-jr-methane rearrangement is also of interest and studies on this have examined the influence of chiral esters. Thus the irradiation of 370 yields a cyclooctatetraene 371 and a diastereoisomeric mixture of the semibullvalenes 372 and 373 in a ratio of 60 40 in solution and 20 80 in the solid phase. The position of attachment is vital and the diastereoselectivity shown by the barrelene 374 is very poor and yields a 1 1 mixture of products . Further examples of the control exercised when dibenzobarrelenes are inadiated in the crystalline phase have used the derivatives 375 and 376 as the acid salts formed with chiral amines. Irradiation affords the products 377 and 378 respectively, obtained after esterification with MeOH, with an ee of >95% . The influence of a chiral crystal lattice on the outcome of the di-jr-methane reaction of achiral 379 has been studied. The irradiation in the crystalline phase gives two chiral di-TT-rnethane products 380 and 381. The former of these is racemic but the latter is obtained in high enantiomeric excess which, under the best conditions, i.e. at —20 °C, approaches 100%. The irradiation of ciystals of 345, as an ethanol complex, affords 382 with an ee of 94%. Carrying out the inadiation at temperatures lower than ambient enhances the specificity of the reaction . 

Molecular motions in confining chiral crystal lattice media are known to be severely restricted. Therefore, high photoreaction selectivities in the solid state can be achieved (see also Special Topic 6.5).172,173 In the present case, it was shown that salts of achiral... 

Racemate Resolution by Host Compounds Forming Chiral Crystal Lattices. . 24... 

Whereas the separation of racemates in the case of urea and TOT was achieved only by a chiral crystal lattice of the achiral or racemic host, respectively, the optically active cyclodextrins, available from the chiral pool, are able to differentiate a chiral guest within their intramolecular cavity. Therefore, they do not necessarily need the crystal lattice to form inclusion compounds. The guest is encapsulated, while is is in solution, too, if the guest by size and shape fits into the cavity of the specific cyclodextrin molecule (a- (26), P- (27), or y-cyclodextrins). 

Of further particular interest was that the crystallographic results on 2,5-DSP and poly-2,5-DSP had pointed out a very important future possibility that an absolute asymmetric synthesis could be achieved if any prochiral molecule, e.g. an unsymmetrical diolefin derivative, could be crystallized into a chiral crystal and if the reaction of the chiral crystal proceeded in the same manner as the 2,5-DSP crystal with retention of the crystal lattice (Wegner, 1972, 1973). Such types of absolute asymmetric synthesis with a high enantiomeric yield have now been performed by topochemical [2+2] photoreaction of unsymmetric diolefin crystals (Addadi etal., 1982 Hasegawa et al., 1990 Chung et al., 1991a,b). 

The photochemical behaviour of 7 OEt is the first example in which the reaction of achiral molecules in an achiral crystal packing does not occur at random but stereospecifically, resulting in a syndiotactic structure. As no external chiral catalyst exists in the reaction, the above result is a unique type of topochemical induction , which is initiated by chance in the formation of the first cyclobutane ring, but followed by syndiotactic cyclobutane formation due to steric repulsions in the crystal cavity. That is, the syndiotactic structure is evolved under moderate control of the reacting crystal lattice. 

X-Ray crystal structural analysis of a (+)-erystal of 96 shows that molecules of 96 are arranged so as to be chiral in the crystalline lattice (Fig. 14). Scheme 9 which is depicted by referring to Fig. 14 indicates the reason why each chiral crystal of 96 gives the corresponding chiral 97. 

Two compounds are diastereomers when they contain more than one chiral center. If the number of dissymmetric centers is given by N, then the number of possible diastereomers is given by 2N. Of these 2 v diastereomers, each will be characterized by its mirror image, so that the number of enantiomers is given by 2NI2. Whereas the physical properties of enantiomers in an achiral environment are necessarily identical, the physical properties (including solubility) of diastereomers are normally different. The differences arise since there is no structural requirement that the crystal lattices of different diastereomers be the same. For instance, the solubility of an (SS )-diastereomer could differ substantially from that of the (/ S)-diastereomer. However, it should be remembered that the solubility of the (SS)-diastereomer must be exactly identical to that of the (I 7 )-diastereomer, since these compounds are enantiomers of each other. At the same time, the solubilities of the (SI )-diastereomer and the (I S)-diastereomer must also be identical. 

The structure of SWCNTs is characterized by the concept of chirality, which essentially describes the way the graphene layer is wrapped and is represented by a pair of indices (n, m). The integers n and m denote the number of unit vectors (a a2) along the two directions in the hexagonal crystal lattice of graphene that result in the chiral vector C (Fig. 1.1) ... 

The first indication of the chirality of sulfuranes was provided by the X-ray analysis of spirosulfurane 176 (192). This work clearly demonstrated the presence of enantiomeric pairs of 176 in the crystal lattice. In 1975, the optically active chlorosulfurane 177, the first example of an optically active tetracoordinate sulfurane, was synthesized by Martin and Balthazor (194,195) by the route indicated in Scheme 15. Reaction of (-)-(5)-menthyl benzenesulfinate 178 with the protected Grignard reagent 179 gave the corresponding sulfoxide alcohol (-)-(5>180 which was cyclized to the chlorosul-... 

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