Stereochemistry resolution

Proton chemical shift data from nuclear magnetic resonance has historically not been very informative because the methylene groups in the hydrocarbon chain are not easily differentiated. However, this can be turned to advantage if a polar group is present on the side chain causing the shift of adjacent hydrogens downfteld. High resolution C-nmr has been able to determine position and stereochemistry of double bonds in the fatty acid chain (62). Broad band nmr has also been shown useful for determination of soHd fat content. 

Cromakalim (137) is a potassium channel activator commonly used as an antihypertensive agent (107). The rationale for the design of cromakalim is based on P-blockers such as propranolol (115) and atenolol (123). Conformational restriction of the propanolamine side chain as observed in the cromakalim chroman nucleus provides compounds with desired antihypertensive activity free of the side effects commonly associated with P-blockers. Enantiomerically pure cromakalim is produced by resolution of the diastereomeric (T)-a-meth5lben2ylcarbamate derivatives. X-ray crystallographic analysis of this diastereomer provides the absolute stereochemistry of cromakalim. Biological activity resides primarily in the (—)-(33, 4R)-enantiomer [94535-50-9] (137) (108). In spontaneously hypertensive rats, the (—)-(33, 4R)-enantiomer, at dosages of 0.3 mg/kg, lowers the systoHc pressure 47%, whereas the (+)-(3R,43)-enantiomer only decreases the systoHc pressure by 14% at a dose of 3.0 mg/kg. 

Chiral sulphoxides are the most important group of compounds among a vast number of various types of chiral organosulphur compounds. In the first period of the development of sulphur stereochemistry, optically active sulphoxides were mainly used as model compounds in stereochemical studies2 5 6. At present, chiral sulphoxides play an important role in asymmetric synthesis, especially in an asymmetric C—C bond formation257. Therefore, much effort has been devoted to elaboration of convenient methods for their synthesis. Until now, optically active sulphoxides have been obtained in the following ways optical resolution, asymmetric synthesis, kinetic resolution and stereospecific synthesis. These methods are briefly discussed below. 

In recent years, a great variety of primary chiral amines have been obtained in enantiomerically pure form through this methodology. A representative example is the KR of some 2-phenylcycloalkanamines that has been performed by means of aminolysis reactions catalyzed by lipases (Scheme 7.17) [34]. Kazlauskas rule has been followed in all cases. The size of the cycle and the stereochemistry of the chiral centers of the amines had a strong influence on both the enantiomeric ratio and the reaction rate of these aminolysis processes. CALB showed excellent enantioselec-tivities toward frans-2-phenylcyclohexanamine in a variety of reaction conditions ( >150), but the reaction was markedly slower and occurred with very poor enantioselectivity with the cis-isomer, whereas Candida antarctica lipase A (GALA) was the best catalyst for the acylation of cis-2-phenylcyclohexanamine ( = 34) and frans-2-phenylcyclopropanamine ( =7). Resolution of both cis- and frans-2-phenyl-cyclopentanamine was efficiently catalyzed by CALB obtaining all stereoisomers with high enantiomeric excess. 

Biooxidative deracemization of racemic sec-alcohols to single enantiomers [47,48] is complementary to combined metal-assisted lipase-mediated strategies [49,50]. In general, deracemization can be realized by either an enantioconvergent, a dynamic kinetic resolution, or a stereoinversion process. The latter concept is particularly appealing, as only half of the substrate needs to be converted, as the remaining half already represents the product with correct stereochemistry. 

Stereoinversion Stereoinversion can be achieved either using a chemoenzymatic approach or a purely biocatalytic method. As an example of the former case, deracemization of secondary alcohols via enzymatic hydrolysis of their acetates may be mentioned. Thus, after the first step, kinetic resolution of a racemate, the enantiomeric alcohol resulting from hydrolysis of the fast reacting enantiomer of the substrate is chemically transformed into an activated ester, for example, by mesylation. The mixture of both esters is then subjected to basic hydrolysis. Each hydrolysis proceeds with different stereochemistry - the acetate is hydrolyzed with retention of configuration due to the attack of the hydroxy anion on the carbonyl carbon, and the mesylate - with inversion as a result of the attack of the hydroxy anion on the stereogenic carbon atom. As a result, a single enantiomer of the secondary alcohol is obtained (Scheme 5.12) [8, 50a]. 

In accord with the current interest in stereochemistry at phosphorus a number of optical studies on phosphonous derivatives have been carried out. Benschop and his group have achieved a partial resolution of alkyl alkylphosphinates (133) by stereospecific inclusion in cycloamyloses. Optical purities in the range 20—80% were obtained. 

Another enantioselective synthesis, shown in Scheme 13.18, involves a early kinetic resolution of the alcohol intermediate in Step B-2 by lipase PS. The stereochemistry at the C(7) methyl group is controlled by the exo selectivity in the conjugate addition (Step D-l). 

NMR provides one of the most powerful techniques for identification of unknown compounds based on high-resolution proton spectra (chemical shift type integration relative numbers) or 13C information (number of nonequivalent carbon atoms types of carbon number of protons at each C atom). Structural information may be obtained in subsequent steps from chemical shifts in single-pulse NMR experiments, homo- and heteronuclear spin-spin connectivities and corresponding coupling constants, from relaxation data such as NOEs, 7) s 7is, or from even more sophisticated 2D techniques. In most cases the presence of a NOE enhancement is all that is required to establish the stereochemistry at a particular centre [167]. For a proper description of the microstructure of a macromolecule NMR spectroscopy has now overtaken IR spectroscopy as the analytical tool in general use. 

Sodium borohydride reduction of aknadinine gave a pair of epimeric alcohols, one of which was found to be identical to natural epihernandolinol and the other identical to the known alkaloid hemandolinol (10) (28). As the structure of hemandolinol (10) had been proposed without resolution of the stereochemistry (28), the stereochemistry of epihernandolinol (9) was not definitely established (27). 

The stereochemistry of each enantiomer separated by the chiral HPLC has been studied after methanolysis of the epoxy ring. Examining the H NMR data of esters of the produced methoxyalcohols with (S)- and (R)-a-methoxy-a-(tri-fluoromethyl) phenylacetic acid by a modified Mosher s method [181], it has been indicated that the earlier eluting parent epoxides are (3S,4R)-, (6S,7R)-, and (9R,10S)-isomers (Table 7) [75, 76, 179]. The above three chiral HPLC columns show different resolution abilities but a different elution order is not observed. The resolution profile by the reversed-phase OJ-R column has been generalized with molecular shapes of the epoxy compounds considering the... 

Optically active selenoxides are known to be unstable toward racemization. An optically active selenoxide having a steroidal frame was obtained for the first time by Jones and co-workers in 1970.7 Enantiomeric selenoxides were prepared by Davis et al. in 1983,8 and an enantiomerically pure selenoxide was isolated for the first time by us in 1989.9 Many optically active selenoxides, which are kinetically stabilized by bulky substituents, were synthesized over the last two decades, and their stereochemistry and stability toward racemization were studied.3,5,10 Recently, some optically active selenoxides, which were thermodynamically stabilized by the intramolecular coordination of a Lewis base to the selenium atom, have been isolated. Optically active selenoxides 1 and 2 were obtained by optical resolution on chiral columns, and their stereochemistry and stability toward racemization under various conditions were clarified (Scheme 1).11,12... 

Horeau, A. Determintaion of the Configuration of Secondary Alcohols by Partial Resolution, in Kagan, H. B., ed. Stereochemistry Fundamentals and Methods, vol. 3 George Thieme, Stuttgart, 1977, p 51. 

Johansen, T. N Janin, Y. L Nielsen, B Frydenvang, K., Brauner-Osbome, H., Stensb0l, T. B et al. (2002) 2-Amino-3-(3-hydroxy-l,2,5-thiadiazol-4-yl)propionic acid resolution, absolute stereochemistry and enantiopharmacology at glutamate receptors. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 10, 2259-2266. 

Ebert, B Lenz, S. M Brehm, L Bregnedal, P Hansen, J. J., Frederiksen, K., et al. (1994) Resolution, absolute stereochemistry, and pharmacology of the S -(+)- and R-(-)-isomers of the apparent partial AMPA receptor agonist (R,5)-2-amino-3-(3-hydroxy-5-phcnylisoxazol-... 

The structure of the heptaosmium carbonyl Os7(CO)2i has been determined by X-ray studies, and the 13C-NMR is consistent with the same structure in solution (231). The stereochemistry of the metal polyhedron follows Wade theory and is a monocapped octahedron (see Fig. 56). As anticipated for this structure, the 13C-NMR spectrum of an isotopically enriched sample (13CO 40%) shows three different chemical shifts, with an intensity ratio of 3 5 1. This spectrum is related to that of [HOs6(CO)18], which also has an idealized C3v symmetry, and may be viewed as [Os7(CO)21] with the Os(CO)3 cap replaced by the hy-drido group. The NMR spectrum of Os7(CO)2j only begins to show evidence of structure to the three bonds at —120°, but the resolution of the 2 1 component for each group, expected on the basis of the X-ray struc-... 

Allenamide ( )-13 was prepared by trapping the corresponding lithioallene with carbon dioxide, followed by conversion of the carboxylate to the amide. Chromatographic resolution of the enantiomers of 13 was easily accomplished on a 10x250mm Chiralcel OD HPLC column. Addition of vinyllithium 14 to (+)-13, followed by quenching the reaction with aqueous NaH2P04, led to cyclopentenone (—)-15 in 64% yield with >95% chirality transfer (Eq. 13.4). The absolute stereochemistry of (-)-5 is consistent with the mechanistic hypothesis put forth in Eq. 13.3 [8]. 

Reactions.—Alkaline Hydrolysis. The first total resolution of a heterocyclic phosphonium salt containing an asymmetric phosphorus atom (128) has been reported, providing ready access to optically active phospholan derivatives of value for studies of the stereochemistry of nucleophilic displacement at phosphorus.124 Alkaline hydrolysis of (128) proceeds with retention of configuration at phosphorus to form the oxide (129). Stereochemical studies in the phospholan series have also been facilitated by the X-ray investigation125 of an isomer of l-iodomethyl-l-phenyl-3-methylphospholanium iodide, which is shown to have the structure (130). 

So, in a way, it is with quinine, known (29) since antiquity as a potent antimalarial. For chemists, the use of quinicine in 1854 in the first resolution of a racemate (1,3) marks a milestone Stereochemistry as we know it today made its debut in that year. In resolutions, quinine and its diastereomers proved to be safe to handle (compare the extreme toxicity of brucine or strychnine with that of quinine), versatile in their applications, and available in reasonably pure form. Little wonder that even today, 131 years after its first use as a resolving agent, quinine (and brucine) continues to be the chemical of choice when one is attempting a new resolution of a racemic acid (90). 

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