Chromatography, chiral excess

Since the first separation of enantiomers by SMB chromatography, described in 1992 [95], the technique has been shown to be a perfect alternative for preparative chiral resolutions [10, 21, 96, 97]. Although the initial investment in the instrumentation is quite high - and often prohibitive for small companies - the savings in solvent consumption and human power, as well as the increase in productivity, result in reduced production costs [21, 94, 98]. Therefore, the technique would be specially suitable when large-scale productions (>100 g) of pure enantiomers are needed. Despite the fact that SMB can produce enantiomers at very high enantiomeric excesses, it is sometimes convenient to couple it with another separation... 

Reaction of the chiral (45,5R)-oxazolidine 9. obtained from 3-pentanone and (-)-2-amino-l-phenylpropanol, with aldehydes gives predominantly a H -aldol adducts of high enantiomeric purity. The corresponding spn-adducts, formed in low enantiomeric excess, are isolated from the diaslereomeric mixture by chromatography 5. 

Interestingly, both invertomers of the obtained M-chloroaziridines 16 were clearly observable in the H-NMR spectrum and they could even be separated by chromatography. The dehydrochlorination was investigated with a variety of bases however, the resulting yields were disappointingly low. Only for R = Ph, a yield of 39% of azirine 17 was obtained using DBU as the base, in all other cases the yields were lower [22]. Davis et al. [23] successfully applied the -elimination of the sulfinyl group in chiral non-racemic N-sulfinylaziridines (Scheme 9), whereby the eliminated sulfenate was trapped by an excess of methyl iodide, which facilitated the isolation of the desired product (18). 

When the desired hydrogen uptake had been achieved, the vessel was opened, catalyst separated by filtration, and the reaction solution analysed by chiral gas chromatography (column Cydex B, 50 m, SGE Ltd). Analysis gave conversion and enantiomeric excess Enantiomeric excess is defined as IR - SI /(R+S). 

Volume inefficient chiral chromatography required to deliver a single enantiomer Separation at final API necessitated processing excess material through the synthesis to give the desired amount... 

Initially, progress in this area was hampered by the lack of suitable analytical methods for chiral hydrocarbons. Early studies relied on optical rotation to determine enantiomeric excess (ee) values, but with the development of chiral gas chromatography (GC) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) columns, chromatographic methods have become more common. 

To determine how much one isomer is in excess over the other, analytical methods based on high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) or gas chromatography (GC) on a chiral column have proved to be most reliable. 

Although the separation of the diastereomeric alcohols 55 or 64 was not possible by flash chromatography we succeeded in a separation by preparative HPLC. The enantiomeric excess of the individual diastereoisomers was determined after saponification to the diol 54 or 63 by chiral GC. It turned out that the enantiomeric excess of both acetates was only 7% ee. The value was so low that we did not make an effort to continue with only marginally enantiomerically enriched material after HPLC separation. 

The (R)-(+)-chiral 1,4-diol 17b was easily prepared from L-(+)-dimethyl tartrate. Dimethyl tartrate was converted to the corresponding phenylethylidene derivative by treatment with 1,1-dimethoxy-l-phenylethane and cat. p-toluenesulfonic acid in refluxing benzene, followed by conversion to the diol 17b with excess phenylmagnesium bromide. The diol was purified by column chromatography on silica gel (hexane ethyl acetate =5 1), and recrystalization from a mixture of hexane and 2-propanol. 

An early synthesis of A5-palmitoy]-.S -[2,3-bis(palmitoyloxy)propyl]cysteine employed cysteine methyl ester, however, this leads to difficulties in the saponification step of the tri-palmitoylated residue. 96 The optimized procedure, in which the cystine di-fert-butyl ester is used, 90 is outlined in Scheme 6 after N-acylation with palmitoyl chloride, the ester is reduced to the cysteine derivative for S-alkylation with l-bromopropane-2,3-diol to yield chirally defined isomers if optically pure bromo derivatives are used. Esterification of the hydroxy groups is best carried out with a 1.25-fold excess of palmitic acid, DCC, and DMAP. The use of a larger excess of palmitoyl chloride is not recommended due to purification problems. The diastereomeric mixture can be separated by silica gel chromatography using CH2Cl2/EtOAc (20 1) as eluent and the configuration was assigned by comparison with an optically pure sample obtained with 2R)- -bromopropane-2,3-diol. 

In the alkylation reactions of the chiral 3-acyl-2-oxazolidinones, deprotonation to the lithium or sodium enolate is by treatment with lithium diisopropylamide or lithium or sodium hexamethyldisilazanide in tetrahydrofuran at low temperature (usually — 78 °C). The haloalka-ne, usually in excess, is then added to the enolate solution at low temperature (usually — 78 °C) for the sodium enolates and at higher temperatures (between —78 and 0CC) for the lithium enolates. When small, less sterically demanding halides, such as iodomethane, are used the sodium enolate is usually preferred 2 24 and in these cases up to five equivalents2,6- 24,26,27 of the halide are necessary in order to obtain good yields of the alkylation products. Conventional extractive workup provides the crude product as a diastereomeric mixture (d.r. usually > 90 10) which is relatively easy to separate by silica gel chromatography and/or by recrystallization (for crystalline products). Thus, it is possible to obtain one diastereomer in very high diastereomeric purity. 

The mixture was extracted with diethyl ether (three times). The combined organic layers were washed with brine and dried over sodium sulfate. After concentration in vacuo, the residue was purified by silica gel flash column chromatography (hexane/ethyl acetate = 20/1-3/1) to give (5)-l (426.3 mg, 74%, 98% ee) as a colourless solid. The enantiomeric excess of (5)-l was determined by chiral stationary-phase HPLC analysis DAICEL CHIRALCEL OD-H, j-PrOH/hexane 1/4, flow rate l.OmLmin tR 14.0 min [(R)-isomer)] and 21.3 min [(5)-isomer), detection at 254 nm]. ... 

Enantiomeric purity. In order to assess the efficiency of an enantioselective hydrolase-catalyzed reaction, it is imperative that one can accurately measure at least the conversion and the enantiomeric excesses of either the substrate or the product (see equations Equation 1, Equation 2, and Equation 3). Although optical rotation is sometimes used to assess enantiomeric excess, it is not recommended. Much better alternatives are various chromatographic methods. For volatile compounds, capillary gas chromatography on a chiral liquid phase is probably the most convenient method. Numerous commercial suppliers offer a large variety of columns with different chiral liquid phases. Hence it is often easy to find suitable conditions for enantioselective GC-separations that yield ee-values in excess of... 

The preceding 12-step sequence was the first published enantiose-lective synthesis of (-)-u-thujone (1). With the aid of gas chromatography over a chiral capillary column it was established that the enantiomeric excess (ee) in the resulting natural product 1 was >99.2%. 

An attractive method for the determination of the enantiomeric excess of substrates and products resulting from the enzyme-catalyzed kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols is chiral gas chromatography (GC).48,49 This sensitive method is quick, simple to carry out and unaffected by the presence of impurities in the analyzed sample, therefore, isolation and purification of the analyzed sample is not required. Very small sample size is required for the analysis hence, reactions can be done on small scale. 

The enantiomeric purity of the sulfamidates 55a and 55b was established using Whelk 0-2 chiral high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) <2005TA1583>, and in each case chiral HPLC confirmed an enantiomeric excess of at least 97%. These two sulfamidate oils proved to be very stable when stored for up to a year at — 20 °C. 

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