Host, chiral, inclusion resolution

In the case of known racemic host systems, enantiomeric resolution or chiral synthesis can provide samples of the pure (+)- and/or (—/-compound. There is no guarantee that the chirally pure material will behave in a similar manner to the racemic mixture, or even that it will still show inclusion behaviour. Pre-resolution has, however, recently been demonstrated to play an important role in inclusion chemistry. 

A special case of host-guest inclusion is the resolution of a racemic mixture of chiral guests. This has important implications for the pharmaceutical industry, where the production of enantiomerically pure drugs has recently become increasingly important. A common method of chiral resolution is via the formation and separation of diastereomers. For example, a racemic acid AH may be treated with a chiral base B [21] ... 

In the case of volatile racemic guest, optical resolution can be carried out by using distillation technique in the presence of a non-volatile chiral host compound. The resolution by distillation is summarized in the section of 5. In the section 5, optical resolution by inclusion crystallization in a suspension medium in hexane or water is also described. 

Tanaka, K., Moriyama, A., and Toda, F. (1997) Novel Chiral Recognition in Host-Guest Inclusion Complexes Depending on Their Molar Ratios Efficient Resolution of 2,2 -Dihydroxy-1,1 -binaphthyl Derivatives and CD Spectral Study of Inclusion Complex Crystals, J. Org. Chem., 62, 1192-1193. 

Similarly, 6°-metacyclophane forms clathrate complexes with benzene derivatives or alicyclic compounds, where only a little guest selectivity has been found ) The ratio n/m of these crystal lattice (cavity) inclusion compounds varies significantly, e.g., n/m=0.3-0.6 (cyclotricatechylene), 2-6 (tri-O-thymotide). It has been found that tri-O-thymotide resolves optical isomers, e.g., 2-butyl halides, by making host-guest inclusion crystals. These optical resolutions are therefore attributable to the crystal lattice chirality that was induced... 

A different non-classical approach to the resolution of sulphoxides was reported by Mikolajczyk and Drabowicz269-281. It is based on the fact that sulphinyl compounds very easily form inclusion complexes with /1-cyclodextrin. Since /1-cyclodextrin as the host molecule is chiral, its inclusion complexes with racemic guest substances used in an excess are mixtures of diastereoisomers that should be formed in unequal amounts. In this way a series of alkyl phenyl, alkyl p-tolyl and alkyl benzyl sulphoxides has been resolved. However, the optical purities of the partially resolved sulphoxides do not exceed 22% after... 

Chiral Recognition. The use of chiral hosts to form diastereomeric inclusion compounds was mentioned above. But in some cases it is possible for a host to form an inclusion compound with one enantiomer of a racemic guest, but not the other. This is caUed chiral recognition. One enantiomer fits into the chiral host cavity, the other does not. More often, both diastereomers are formed, but one forms more rapidly than the other, so that if the guest is removed it is already partially resolved (this is a form of kinetic resolution, see category 6). An example is use of the chiral crown ether (53) partially to resolve the racemic amine salt (54). " When an aqueous solution of 54 was... 

A regio- and stereoselective Beckmann rearrangement utilized diastereose-lective host guest interactions of the inclusion complexes 225 and 228 in a solid state reaction. Initially, a 1 1 mixture of the chiral host 223 and the racemic oximes 224 and 227, respectively, was treated with ultra sound in the solid state to induce the optical resolution. Then H2SO4 was added to start the Beckmann rearrangement, the corresponding c-caprolactams 226 and 229 were isolated in 68 % and 64 % yields and ee of about 80 % and 69 % (determined by HPLC analysis on chiracel OC) (Scheme 43) [46]. 

The question that emerges at the climax of this survey relates to the possibility of using crystalline inclusion phenomena for optical resolutions of molecular species. Can this be done effectively with suitably designed host compounds The definitely positive answer to this question has elegantly been demonstrated by Toda 20) as well as by other investigators (see Ch. 2 of Vol. 140). An optically active host compound will always form a chiral lattice. Therefore, when an inclusion type structure is induced, one enantiomer of the guest moiety should be included selectively within the asymmetric environment. 

The possibility to resolve the two enantiomers of 27a (or 26) by crystalline complexa-tion with optically active 26 (or 27a) is mainly due to differences in topological complementarity between the H-bonded chains of host and guest molecules. In this respect, the spatial relationships which affect optical resolution in the above described coordination-assisted clathrates are similar to those characterizing some optically resolved molecular complexes S4). This should encourage additional applications of the lattice inclusion phenomena to problems of chiral recognition. 

In a typical resolution procedure, two equivalents of a racemic compound and one equivalent of a chiral host dissolved in an inert solvent (toluene, benzene or hexane) are left to crystallize. The resulting crystalline product is an inclusion compound with a typical host guest ratio of 1 1 or 2 1. The guest compound... 

For example, when powdered host 27 was mixed with volatile rac-but-3-yn-2-ol (29) and left for 24 h, a 1 1 inclusion complex with (+1-29 was formed. The alcohol can be removed from the complex by heating in vacuo yielding 29 of 59 % ee and 77 % yield. A second complexation, followed by distillation in vacuo, gave (+)-29 of 99 % ee and 28 % yield. The best resolution of rac-29 reported to date was by enzymatic esterification, and gave chiral alcohol at 70 % ee and 31% yield [49], Host 27 could be used for optical resolution of rac-2-hexanol... 

Crystallisation of racemic 15 from either chloroform or 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroe-thane yields achiral inclusion compounds that contain both host enantiomers. In contrast, when 15 is crystallised from tetrahydrofuran (THF), a mixture of (+)- and (—)- crystals is produced in space group /J2 2 2 [40], Once again, chirality arises from the lattice structure rather than from self-resolution of the host enantiomers. 

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 ... 

OPTICAL RESOLUTIONS BY INCLUSION COMPLEXATION WITH A CHIRAL HOST COMPOUND... 

In most cases, chiral alcohol and phenol derivatives are used as host compounds for the resolution. In these cases, guest molecules are accommodated in the complex by formation of hydrogen bond with the hydroxyl group of the host. Since the hydrogen bond is not very strong, the included guest compound can be recovered easily from the inclusion complex by distillation, recrystallization, chromatography or some other simple procedures. 

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. 

Although mechanism of the precise chiral recognition between host and guest molecules in their inclusion crystal has been studied in detail by X-ray structural analysis, these X-ray structures are not shown in this chapter, since this chapter deals with practical procedures of optical resolutions. 

Some amide derivatives have been reported to form inclusion complex with a wide variety of organic compounds.9 Optically active amide derivatives are expected to include one enantiomer of a racemic guest selectively. According to this idea, some amide derivatives of tartaric acid (11-13) were designed as chiral hosts.10 As will be described in the following section, these amide hosts were found to be useful for resolution of binaphthol (BNO) (14) and related compounds (15,16). 

Reason for the effective optical resolution by the inclusion complexation with a chiral host has been clarified by X-ray analysis of the complex formed. By the X-ray structural study of the host-guest complex, absolute configuration of the chiral guest resolved has also been elucidated easily, since absolute configuration of the chiral host is known. These X-ray data have been reported in the literature cited together with the detailed experimental procedure of the resolution. 

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. 

In the optical resolution of bicyclo[2.2.1]heptanones (87a, 88-90), bicyclo[2.2.2]- octanones (91-94) and bicyclo[3.2.1]octanone (95) by complexation with various chiral host compounds, some best host-guest combinations were found. Resolutions of 88, 89, 90, and 92 were accomplished efficiently by complexation with 3 to give (+)-88 (100% ee, 33%), (-)-89 (100% ee, 16%), (+)-90 (100% ee, 60%), and (-)-92 (100% ee, 41%), respectively, in the optical and chemical yields indicated.36 However, resolutions of 93 and 95 were accomplished efficiently by complexation with 8a to give optically pure (-)-93 and (-)-95 in 56 and 48% yields, respectively. On the other hand, resolution of 94 can be accomplished only by complexation with 15c to give finally (-)-94 of 100% ee in 31% yield.36 Mechanism of these chiral recognition in the inclusion complex crystal has been studied by X-ray analysis.36 Nevertheless, none of 3,8a and 15c is applicable to the resolution... 

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