Glycols enantiomer preparation

The chiral acetate reagent is readily prepared from methyl mandelate [methyl (A)-hydroxy-phenyl acetate] which is first converted by treatment with phcnylmagnesium bromide into the triphenylglycol783, c (see Section 1.3.4.2.2.2.) and subsequently transformed into the acetate by reaction with acetyl chloride in the presence of pyridine. Thereby, the secondary hydroxyl group of the glycol is esterified exclusively. Both enantiomers of the reagent are readily accessible since both (R)- and (5)-hydroxyphenylacelic acid (mandelic acids) arc industrial products. 

A detailed spectroscopic and theoretical study of the conformation of dioxolanes 1 has appeared <96T8275>, and a theoretical study has shown that the anomeric effect explains the non-planarity of 1,3-dioxole <96JA9850>. The tetraalkynyldioxolanone 2 has been prepared and its structure and reactivity studied <96HCA634>. Both enantiomers of the chiral glycolic acid equivalent 3 can be prepared from D-mannitol <96HCA1696>, and lipase-mediated kinetic... 

Compound 22 can be conveniently prepared in multigram quantities and has been found to be useful for assessing the enantiomeric purity of 1,2-glycols. Because the ketal carbon represents a new chiral center, the formation of four diastereomers is possible. However, the diastereomeric pair 23a and 23b (or 23c and 23d) shows 1 1 peak height in 13C NMR or equal peak areas in HPLC the diastereomer composition measured by the ratio of 23a to 23b or 23c to 23d reflects the enantiomer composition of the original 1,2-glycol. 

Both the (RR)- and (5S)-enantiomers of hydrobenzoin (Figure I4a) have been made to react (110, 117, 118) successfully in a (2 + 2) cyclization with ethylene glycol ditosylate in the presence of bases (e.g., NaOH in dioxane or NaH in MA -dimethylformamide) to give the enantiomeric tetiaphenyl-18-crown-6 derivatives (RRRR)-73 and (SSSS)-73. The corresponding optically pure tetra-anisyl, tetra-a-naphthyl, and tetra-/3-naphthyl-18-crown-6 derivatives 74, 75, and 76, respectively, have also been prepared in similar fashion (119). It should be noted that (RRRR)- and (,SSSS)-73 have also been obtained as a result of a base-promoted (1 + 1) cyclization (120) between the chiral extended diol and... 

Dihydromuscimol (49) is a conformationally restricted analogue of the physiologically important neurotransmitter y-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and has been prepared using the cycloaddition of dibromoformaldoxime to A-Boc-allylamine followed by N-deprotection with sodium hydroxide (Scheme 6.52) (278). The individual enantiomers of dihydromuscimol were obtained by reaction of the bromonitrile oxide with (5)-( + )-l,2-0-isopropylidene-3-butene-l,2-diol, followed by separation of the diastereoisomeric mixture (erythro/threo 76 24), hydrolysis of respective isomers, and transformation of the glycol moiety into an amino group (279). 

West and Naidu found that the diazoketone 358, prepared by alkylating the benzyl ester of L-proline with 5-bromo-l-diazopentan-2-one, cyclized to give a transient spirobicyclic ammonium ylide 359 when heated with coppeifll) acetylacetonate in toluene (Scheme 44) (355,356). This unstable ylide underwent a diastereoselective [1,2]-Stevens rearrangement to give the quinolizidinone 360 and its bridgehead epimer in a ratio of 95 5. However, some racemization (possibly through an achiral diradical intermediate) must have occurred, since 360 had an ee of only 75%. Reduction of the ester and defimctionalization of thioketal 361 with the unusual combination of sodium and hydrazine in hot ethylene glycol completed a synthesis of the unnatural (- )-enantiomer of epilupinine (ent-331). 

Cassine (214) and (+)-spectaline (217) were synthesized, beginning with both enantiomers of an appropriately trisubstituted piperidine. The starting materials were prepared via a lipase catalyzed transesterification or hydrolysis of a glycol or diacetate [491,192]. 

Matsui et al. [162] first reported the preparation of molecularly imprinted monoliths based on functional monomer such as methacrylic acid or 2-trifluoromethyl-acrylic acid via in situ polymerization. The reaction mixture consisting of monomer, cross-linker (ethylene glycol dimethacrylate), porogenic solvents (cyclohexanol and 1-dodecanol), initiator, and template molecule was degassed and poured into a column where the polymerization took place. When reaction is completed, the template molecule and the porogenic solvents were extracted with methanol and acetic acid resulting in monoliths with molecular recognition in the separation of positional isomers of diaminonaphthalene and phenylalanine anilide enantiomers. 

The zwitterionic monocyclic A. Si-silicates la and lb were synthesized by reaction of the zwitterionic A, 5 -trifluorosilicate 4 with one molar equivalent of the 0,0 -bis(trimethylsilyl) derivatives of glycolic acid and 2-methyl lactic acid, respectively (Scheme 1). Compounds 2a and 2b were prepared analogously starting from the zwitterionic X Si-trifluorosilicate 5 (Scheme 1). As shown for compound la in Fig. 1, the zwitterionic X i i-silicates la, lb, 2a, and 2b are chiral and exist as pairs of enantiomers [(A)- and (C)-enantiomers]. All compounds were isolated as racemic mixtures. 

Molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs) can be prepared according to a number of approaches that are different in the way the template is linked to the functional monomer and subsequently to the polymeric binding sites. The current technique makes use of noncovalent self-assembly of the template with functional monomers before polymerization, free radical polymerization with a cross-linking monomer, and then template extraction followed by rebinding by noncovalent interactions. The functional monomer is often methacrylic acid, the cross-linker is ethylene glycol dimethacrylate, the initiator is 2,2-azo-A,lV -to-isobutyronitrile. They are mixed with template and the mixture is reacted at elevated temperature. The resultant rigid polymer is ground into a sieved powder and the template enantiomer washed off. 

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