Inclusion complexation, optical highly enantiomeric

When a mixture of methyl phenyl sulfide (69a) (1 g, 8.1 mmol), 30% H2O2 (1.84 g, 16.2 mmol), and water (10 ml) was stirred at room temperature for 24 h, rac-lOa was produced (Scheme 11). To the water suspension medium of rac-70a was added 10c (2 g, 4 mmol), and the mixture was stirred for 15 h to give a 1 1 inclusion complex of 10c with (+)-70a. Heating the filtered complex in vacuo gave (+)-70a of 57% ee (0.45 g, 82% yield). From the filtrate left after separation of the inclusion complex, (-)-70a of 54% ee (0.4 g, 73% yield) was obtained by extraction with ether. By the same procedure, optically active 70b-d were also prepared (Table 11). In the case of (+)-70b and (-)-70c,the efficiency of the enantiomeric resolution was very high. 

Even less expected, perhaps, are the reactions involving gas-solid addition of HBr, Cl2, and Br2 to a, 3-unsaturated acid guest species in a- and P-cyclodextrin inclusion complexes (242). Although the chemical yields are not high, the optical yields in some cases are extraordinary. Thus, chlorine addition to methacrylic acid in a-cyclodextrin yields (- )-2,3-dichloro-2-methylpropanoic acid in nearly quantitative optical yield. The 3-cyclodextrin methacrylic acid clathrate undergoes chlorine addition to yield preferentially the enantiomeric (+ )-product, with an e.e. of 80%. 

The advantages are similar to those of the indirect method the additive can be chosen from a wide range and in some cases its chirality can be adapted to the separation problem the stationary phase is cheap. In fact, the reagent does not necessarily need to be optically pure (although it should not be a racemate), but decreasing enantiomeric purity reduces the separation factor. The price of the reagent can be high. The interaction between the chiral selector and the sample can be based on inclusion (e.g., with cyclodextrins), on complexation (e.g., with amino acid-copper additives), on ion pair formation (e.g.,... 

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