Host, chiral, inclusion preparation

Toda, F., and Ochi, M. (1996) Enantioselective Oxidation of Imines in Inclusion Complexes with a Chiral Host Compound and Preparation of Optically Pure Oxaziridines by Enantiomer Resolution, Enantiomer, 1, 85-88. 

Scheme 2. Preparation of chiral - 01 (S j-2,2 -bis(diphenyphosphino)-1,1 -binaphthyl.

Some solid-solid reactions were shown to proceed efficiently in a water suspension medium in Sect. 2.1. When this reaction, which gives a racemic product, is combined with an enantioselective inclusion complexation with a chiral host in a water suspension medium, a unique one-pot preparative method of optically active product in a water medium can be constructed. Some such successful examples are described. 

Enantiocontrol of the photocyclization of Ar-methyl-AT-phenyl-3-amino-2-cyclohexen-l-one (151a,b) to the corresponding AT-methylhexahydro-4-car-bazolones (153a,b) via the dipolar ionic intermediate (152a,b) (Scheme 22) was also accomplished by photoirradiation of 1 1 inclusion complexes of 151 a,b with the chiral hosts lOa-c. Of the complexes prepared, 10a-151a, 10a-151b,... 

Among the different types of compounds whose complexation properties have been studied are various amides linear oxoamide 9 [22], fumaramide 10 [23,24] and methanetricarboxamide 11 [25], biphenyl derivatives 12 [26], and derivatives of tartaric acid 13-16, that can also be prepared in an optically active form [27], The above-mentioned chiral hosts have been found to form inclusion complexes with chiral guests 17 and 18. Molecular recognition between chiral hosts and... 

Several prominent types of host molecule, such as the steroidal bile acids and the cyclodextrins, are chiral natural products that are available as pure enantiomers. Chemical modification of these parent compounds provides an easy route to the preparation of large numbers of further homochiral substances. Since all these materials are present as one pure enantiomer, it automatically follows that their crystalline inclusion compounds must have chiral lattice structures. It is not currently possible to investigate racemic versions of these compounds, but the examples discussed previously in this chapter indicate that very different behaviour could result. 

The method relies on the p and n salts having different solubilities, and they must not form solid solutions or double salts. The more insoluble salt is filtered and the purified acid recovered by adding mineral acid. This method of chiral resolution is well established, and lists of resolving agents for many classes of racemic compounds are available [22], Inclusion chemistry may be employed for the same purpose by preparing host-guest compounds with a chiral host ... 

Optically pure P-lactam derivatives can also be prepared by an enantioselective photocyclization reaction of 2-pyridone in its inclusion complex with a chiral host. For example, irradiation of the 1 1 inclusion complex of 1 and 4-methoxy-/V-inethyl-2-pyridone (33) in the solid state gave (—)-34 of 100% ee... 

This chapter consists mainly of two sections, 1) preparation of artificial chiral host compounds and 2) optical resolution of various racemic guest compounds by inclusion complexation with these hosts. 

Optical resolution of some hydrocarbonds and halogeno compounds by inclusion complexation with the chiral host (9a) has been accomplished.11,12 Preparation of optically active hydrocarbons is not easy and only a few example of the preparation of optically active hydrocarbons have been reported. For example, optically active 3-phenylcyclohexene has been derived from tartaric acid through eight synthetic steps.11 Although one-step synthesis of optically active 3-methylcyclohexene from 2-cyclo- hexanol by the Grignard reaction using chiral nickel complex as a catalyst has been reported, the enantiomeric purity of the product is low, 15.9%.11 In this section, much more fruitful results by our inclusion method are shown. 

Preparation of optically active P-ionone epoxide by a solid state kinetic resolution in the presence of the chiral host 10a is also possible. When a mixture of 10a, P-ionone (66) and m-chloroperbenzoic acid (MCPBA) is ground by mortar and pestle in the solid state, (+)-67 of 88% ee was obtained.29 Mechanism of the kinetic resolution is shown below. Of course, all processes proceed in the solid state. Firstly, oxidation of 66 with MCPBA gives rac-P-ionone epoxide (67). Secondly, enantioselective inclusion of (+)-67 with 10a occurs. Thirdly, uncomplexed (-)-67 is oxidized to give the Baeyer- Villiger oxidation product (-)-68 of 72% ee. This is the first example of the resolution by an enantioselective inclusion complexation in the solid state. 

Although some kinds of optically active compounds can be prepared by an asymmetric synthesis using a chiral catalyst, this method is not applicable for preparation of all kinds of compounds. Furthermore, optical yields of the product are not always very high. On the contrary, optical resolution method by inclusion complexation with a chiral host is applicable to various kinds of guest compounds as described in this chapter. When optically pure product cannot be obtained by one resolution procedure, perfect resolution can be accomplished by repeating the process, although asymmetric synthetic process cannot be repeated. Especially, optical resolutions by inclusion complexation with a chiral host in a water suspension medium and by fractional distillation in the presence of a chiral host are valuable as green and sustainable processes. 

The photocyclization of acrylanilide (122) to 3,4-dihydroquinolinone (123), which was first reported in 1971 [74], can also be carried out enantioselectively by using a chiral host compound. Irradiation of the finely powdered 1 1 inclusion complex of 122 with 26 in a water suspension gave (-)-123 of 98% ee in 46% yield [75]. By the same procedure, optically active 125, 127 and 129 were prepared from 124, 126 and 128, respectively (Table 15-23) [75]. 

The chiral host 4 b includes 62 to form two kinds of inclusion compounds, in 1 1 and 2 1 host guest ratios, which upon photoirradiation in the solid state give (-)-63 (96% ee, 50% yield) and (+)-63 (98% ee, 86% yield), respectively, in the optical and chemical yields indicated [35]. Interestingly, irradiation of a 2 1 inclusion complex of 4 b and 62, which had been prepared by mixing of both in the solid state, gave (-)-63 of 97% ee in 16% yield [35]. Structural studies of these inclusion complexes have been accomplished by X-ray analysis [35]. 

Preparation of enantiomerically active hydrocarbons is difficult and only a few examples of the preparation of chiral hydrocarbons have been reported. For example, chiral 3-phenylcyclohexene has been derived from tartaric acid through eight synthetic steps. Enantiomeric separation by host-guest complexation with a chiral host is more fruitful for the preparation of chiral hydrocarbons. For example, when a solution of fR,Rh( )-t ws-4,5-bis(hydroxydiphenylmethyl)-l,4-dioxaspiro[4.4]-nonane (lb) [2] (3 g, 6.1 mmol) and rac-3-methylcyclohexene (2a) (0.58 g, 6.1 mmol) in ether (15 ml) was kept at room temperature for 12 h, a 2 1 inclusion complex of lb and 2a (2.5 g, 75%) was obtained as colorless prisms in the yield indicated. The crystals were purified by recrystallization from ether to give the inclusion complex (2.4 g, 71%), which upon heating in vacuo gave (-)-2a of 75% ee by distillation (0.19 g, 71%) [3]. By the same inclusion complexation, (-i-)-4-methyl- (2b) (33% ee, 55%), (-)-4-vinylcyclohexene (2c) (28% ee, 73%), (-)-bicyclo[4.3]-nonane-2,5-diene... 

In this section, one-pot preparations of optically active compounds by a combination of solid-state reaction and enantioselective inclusion complexation in a water suspension medium are described. In order to establish the suspension procedure as a general enantiomeric separation method, enantiomeric separations of various compounds by complexation in hexane and water suspension media were studied. Furthermore, by combining enantioselective inclusion complexation with a chiral host in the solid state with distillation, a fascinating enantiomeric separation method by fractional distillation was established. 

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