Enantiomer isolation crystallization

In the case of the a-dehydroamino acid (Fig. 10.23, right), it could be shown by using low-temperature NMR spectroscopy that the isolated crystals correspond to the major substrate complex in solution. However, according to the major-minor concept (see Scheme 10.2), it does not lead to the main enantiomer [63]. On the contrary, it could be proven unequivocally for various substrate complexes with yS-dehydroamino acids that the isolated substrate complexes are major-substrate complexes. Surprisingly, they also gave the main enantiomer of the asymmetric hydrogenation, which would not be expected on the basis of... 

When the salt derived from the hydrogenation products is crystallized, a part of the racemic modification crystallizes as a racemate but not conglomerate, while a part of the excess enantiomer gives crystals of a single enantiomer. In all cases, the former crystals are much soluble than the latter. Hence crystals of a single enantiomer are effectively isolated from racemic modification. This optical enrichment procedure is effectively applied for 3-hydroxyalkanoic acids of more than 80% e.e. on a practical scale. 

Scheme 7. Examples for Enantiomer Separations by Crystallization with TADDOLs. Besides the original TADDOL (from tartrate acetonide and PhMgX), Toda et al. [44] have often used the cyclopentanone- and cyclohexanone-derived analogs. The dynamic resolution (resolution with in-situ recychng) of 2-(2-methoxyethyl)cyclohexanone was reported by Tsunoda et al. The resolved compounds shown here are only a small selection from a large number of successful resolutions, which include alcohols, ethers, oxiranes, ketones, esters, lactones, anhydrides, imides, amines, aziridines, cyanohydrins, and sulfoxides. The yields given refer to the amount of guest compound isolated in the procedure given. Since we are not dealing with reactions (for which we use % es to indicate enantioselectivity with which the major enantiomer is formed), we use % ep (enantiomeric purity of the enantiomer isolated from the inclusion...

Natural Occurrence of ( — )-proto-Quercitol. Although the dextrorotatory form (12) of proto-quercitol was discovered in acorns more than a century ago by Braconnot (5), who at first thought that it was lactose, the levorotatory form (13) remained unknown until 1961. In that year, Plouvier isolated it from leaves of the tree Eucalyptus populnea the yield was 0.55% (36). The optical rotation of the new compound was equal and opposite to that of the dextro enantiomer, and it was identical to the latter in its crystal form, melting point, solubilities, molecular formula and infrared spectrum. 

Our approach for chiral resolution is quite systematic. Instead of randomly screening different chiral acids with racemic 7, optically pure N-pMB 19 was prepared from 2, provided to us from Medicinal Chemistry. With 19, several salts with both enantiomers of chiral acids were prepared for evaluation of their crystallinity and solubility in various solvent systems. This is a more systematic way to discover an efficient classical resolution. First, a (+)-camphorsulfonic acid salt of 19 crystallized from EtOAc. One month later, a diastereomeric (-)-camphorsulfonic acid salt of 19 also crystallized. After several investigations on the two diastereomeric crystalline salts, it was determined that racemic 7 could be resolved nicely with (+)-camphorsulfonic acid from n-BuOAc kinetically. In practice, by heating racemic 7 with 1.3equiv (+)-camphorsulfonic acid in n-BuOAc under reflux for 30 min then slowly cooling to room temperature, a cmde diastereomeric mixture of the salt (59% ee) was obtained as a first crop. The first crop was recrystallized from n-BuOAc providing 95% ee salt 20 in 43% isolated yield. (The optical purity was further improved to -100% ee by additional recrystallization from n-BuOAc and the overall crystallization yield was 41%). This chiral resolution method was more efficient and economical than the original bis-camphanyl amide method. 

A pyridine derivative related to dien with respect to the number and distribution of N-donor atoms, namely bis(2-pyridylmethyl)amine (bpma), also gives comparable complexes with Cd, e.g., [Cd(bpma)2](C104)2 with potentially three isomers (including a pair of enantiomers). As shown by the structure analysis (C2/c, Z = 4), a distorted octahedral fac-isomer with symmetry 2 —C2 has been isolated, necessarily with both enantiomers in the crystal lattice. No significant difference in the two kinds of Cd—N bonds (rav(Cd—N) 235.0 pm) is observed.189 Solid-state 13C NMR spectra of this complex and related Mn and Zn complexes have been discussed. 

Selenurane oxides are also one of the hypervalent selenium compounds. Recently, the enantiomers of chiral selenurane oxide 38 were isolated for the first time by enantioselective liquid chromatography of the racemate or by spontaneous resolution occurring during slow evaporation of its acetonitrile solution or slow crystallization from the same solvent.57 The absolute configurations of the enantiomers were determined by X-ray crystallographic analysis (Scheme 17). 

The zwitterionic A5S7-fluorosilicates 4-22 were isolated as crystalline solids. Compounds 4-8, 13, and 17-22 were structurally characterized in the solid state by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In contrast to the achiral zwitterions 4-16, the zwitterions 17-22 are chiral, the respective crystals consisting of pairs of enantiomers [(A)- and (C)-enantiomers]. In all cases, the /-coordination polyhedron was found to be a somewhat distorted trigonal bipyramid, with fluorine atoms in the two axial sites. This is illustrated for 6 and 19 in Fig. 1. Selected geometric parameters for compounds 4-8, 13, and 17-22 are listed in Table I. As can be seen from these data, the axial Si-F distances [1.647(2)-1.743(1) A] are significantly longer than the equatorial ones [1.589(2)-1.638(1) A]. The Si-Cl distances amount... 

As illustrated for compounds 77 and 78 in Scheme 18, different methods were applied for the syntheses of 77-79 (79 was obtained analogously to 78 according to method a). The racemic products 77a 0.7CH3CN, 78 CH3CN, and 79 were isolated as crystalline solids. In addition, crystals of the racemic compound 77b (an isomer of 77a) were obtained. For the solvent-free compound 78 formation of enantiomorphic crystals was observed. The crystals studied by X-ray diffraction contained (just by accident) the (A)-enantiomer. 

Before an asymmetric synthesis appeared of levofloxacin (1, (—)-ofloxacin), (—)- ofloxacin was isolated via optical, enzymatic, and crystallization resolution of the racemic ofloxacin (17) Drugs Future, 1992 Hayakawa et al., 1986, 1991). For instance, tricyclic core 52 was converted to ( + )-3,5-dinitrobenzoyl derivative 54 in 75% yield (Scheme 4.5). The enantiomers were then separated via high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with a SUMIPAX OA-4200 column to deliver optically pure benzoyl esters 55a and 55b (Drugs Future, 1992 Hayakawa et al., 1986, 1991). 

This type of approach has been described by Lorenz [23], who demonstrated the potential for improving MCC throughput by coupling crystallization to the MCC separation. In the case of radafaxine it was established that there is a eutectic at 0.85 (see Figure 10.5) and mixtures > than this value result in crystallization of pure (S,S)-enantiomer. For example, if an initially lower raffinate purity (-95%) is obtained from the MCC and this is followed by crystallization during isolation it is possible to obtain material that is 99.5% pure. 

Later, Pasteur 15) had arrived at the general stereochemical criterion for a chiral or dissymmetric molecular structure. Thus, the specific rotations of the two sets of sodium ammonium tartrate crystals in solution, isolated from the racemic mixture by hand-picking, were equal in magnitude and opposite in sign, from which Pasteur inferred that enantiomorphism of the dextro- and laevorotatory crystals is reproduced in the microscopic stereochemistry of the (+)- and (—)-tartaric acid molecules. The term dissymmetry or chirality is used when there is no superimposability between the two enantiomers, as seen in Sect. 2.1. 

A wide range of bidentates containing one or more asymmetric phosphorus or arsenic donor atoms is now available due to the exploitation of a resolution technique involving the fractional crystallization of pairs of diastereomeric complexes formed by the chiral bidentates with pal-ladium(II) complexes containing optically active dimethyl(a-methylbenzyl)amine or dimethyl(l-ethyl-a-naphthyl)amine. Indeed, in recent work the two enantiomer pairs of l-(methylphenyl-arsino)-2-(methylphenylphosphino)benzene, (29a) and (29b), have been separated and isolated as optically pure air-stable crystalline solids with [a]o values of 79° (R, R ) and 15.5° (R, S ). 95... 

This procedure may be varied by using 0.9 equivalents of NaOH as the base or by using methanol containing as much as 40% water. Isolation of the product is accomplished by evaporating methanol, acidifying the water solution, and then crystallizing the excess enantiomer out of methanol. 

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