Organized media inclusion hosts

Chemical reactions in the sohd state have intrinsic features different from those for reactions performed in solution or in the gaseous state. For example, sohd-state organic reactions often provide a high regio- or stereoselectivity because the reactions and the structiue of a product are determined by the crystal structure of the reactant, i.e., the reaction proceeds under crystaUine lattice control [1-8]. When the reactant molecules are themselves crystalhne (molecular crystals) or are included in host crystals (inclusion compounds), the rate and selectivity of the reaction are different from those obtained in an isotropic reaction medium. 

Unique inclusion behavior in reflection of the induced-fit binding mechanism is observed when an organic stock solution of octopus cyclophane 3 is injected into an aqueous medium containing ANS for the host-guest complexation study [17], A circular dichroism (CD) spectrum does not undergo any change for 3 upon complexation with ANS, indicating that the conformation around l-... 

When a mixture of acetophenone 59a (1.0 g, 8.3 mmol), NaBH4 (0.94 g, 24.9 mmol), and water (10 ml) was stirred at room temperature for 2 h, rat-60a was produced. To the water suspension medium of rac-60a was added powdered 8a (3.87 g, 8.3 mmol), and the mixture was stirred for 3 h to give a 2 1 inclusion complex of 8a with (-)-60a.25 Inclusion complex formed was filtered and dried. Heating of the complex in vacuo gave (-)-60a of 95% ee (0.42 g, 85%). From the filtrate left after separation of the inclusion crystals, (+)-60a of 77% ee (0.35 g, 70%) was obtained by extraction with ether. By the same procedure, optically active 60a and 60c-g were prepared (Table 5). Solid state and solvent-free organic reactions have been well established25,263 0. Host-guest inclusion complexation in the solid state has also been reported.260... 

Host-guest inclusion complexations are usually carried out in organic solvents. As a green process, inclusion complexation can be performed in a water suspension medium or in the solid state. When the solid-state reaction in a water suspension medium is combined with an enantioselective inclusion complexation in the same water medium, a one-pot green preparative method for obtaining optically active compounds can be designed. In all these cases, enantiomers separated as inclusion complexes are recovered by distillation of the inclusion complex. When enantioselective inclusion complexation in the solid state is combined with the distillation technique, a unique green process for enantiomeric separation can result. 

Enantiomeric separations of bicyclic acid anhydride 69, lactones 70 and 71 and carboximides 72 and 73 by complexation with la-c in organic solvents were also successful (Table 3.3-3) [26]. These complexations can probably be carried out in a water suspension medium and hence be described as green processes. rac-Panto-lactone (74) was separated to produce (S)-(-)-74 of 99% ee in 30% yield by complexation with Ic [27]. Enantiomerically impure monoterpenes were purified by inclusion complexation with a chiral host compound. For example, (lS,5S)-(-)-verbe-none (75a) of 78% ee gave 99% ee enantiomer by complexation with la. By similar treatment of 75b of 91% ee with la as above, (lR,5R)-(-i-)-75b of 98% ee was obtained [28]. 

Very interestingly, in some cases, the enantioselective inclusion complexation of the rac-product with a chiral host in aqueous medium is more efficient than recrystallization from an organic solvent For example, inclusion complexation of rac-94e with la or lb did not occur by their recrystallization from organic solvent but enantioselective inclusion complexation between rac-94e and lb occurred efficiently in aqueous medium to give, finally, (-)-94e of 99% ee. 

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