Diastereoisomers resolution

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... 

P-chiral dibenzophosphole oxide (52a) (Scheme 14) shows liquid crystalline behaviour [52], a property that is of interest in the area of electro-optical displays [53]. Chiral resolution of (52a) was achieved by column chromatographic separation of the diastereoisomers obtained following coordination of the o -benzophosphole (52b) to chiral cyclometallated palladium(II) complexes [52]. Notably, the presence of a stereogenic P-centre is sufficient to generate a chiral cholesteric phase. 

Most methods for the resolution of enantiomers contained in a reaction mixture consist in the conversion of the compounds into stable or transient diastereoisomers and separation of the latter on the basis of their different physico-chemical properties. 

Bohman and Allenmark resolved a series of sulphoxide derivatives of unsaturated malonic acids of the general structure 228. The classical method of resolution via formation of diastereoisomeric salts with cinchonine and quinine has also been used by Kapovits and coworkers " to resolve sulphoxides 229, 230, 231 and 232 which are precursors of chiral sulphuranes. Miko/ajczyk and his coworkers achieved optical resolution of sulphoxide 233 by utilizing the phosphonic acid moiety for salt formation with quinine. The racemic sulphinylacetic acid 234, which has a second centre of chirality on the a-carbon atom, was resolved into pure diastereoisomers by Holmberg. Racemic 2-hydroxy- and 4-hydroxyphenyl alkyl sulphoxides were separated via the diastereoisomeric 2- or 4-(tetra-0-acetyl-D-glucopyranosyloxy)phenyl alkyl sulphoxides 235. The optically active sulphoxides were recovered from the isolated diastereoisomers 235 by deacetylation with base and cleavage of the acetal. Racemic 1,3-dithian-l-oxide 236... 

Optically active substances are preferentially adsorbed by some optically active adsorbent. Thus Broadly and Easty (1951) found wool and casein to adsorb (+) mandelic acid from its aqueous solution. Some workers also successfully carried out resolution without using an active adsorbent. The alumina was found to be suitable for resolving diastereoisomers of (-) menthyl ( ) mandelate. 

Since all the physical properties of two given enantiomers are the same in the absence of a chiral, or optically active, medium, their chromatographic resolution needs a different approach from the relatively simple separation of geometrical isomers, stereoisomers or positional isomers. Two methods are used. The older technique of indirect resolution, requires conversion of the enantiomers to diastereoisomers using a suitable chiral reagent, followed by separation of the diastereoisomers on a non-chiral GC or LC stationary phase. This technique has now been largely superseded by direct resolution, using either a chiral mobile phase (in LC) or a chiral stationary phase. A variety of types of chiral stationary phase have been developed for use in GC, LC and SFC(21 23). 

Hamilton PB and Anderson RA (1955) Hydroxylysine isolation from gelatin and resolution of its diastereoisomers by ion exchange chromatography. J Biol Chem 213, 249-258. 

Dynamic combinatorial nitroaldol libraries were also used to illustrate iDCR [5,6], In this case, one of the library components was selected for its possibility to undergo an irreversible tandem cyctizafion reaction following equilibrium formation. This provided an internal kinetic selection pressure on the library, subsequently forcing the library to complete amplification of this novel reaction product. Furthermore, interesting crystalline properties were observed for one of the diastereoisomers of this isoindolinone-type product, providing a route to demonstrate consecutive resolution processes resolving coupled DCLs in a one-pot experiment. 

Furthermore, yeast treatment of the a-acetoxy ketone 53, bearing two oxygen substituents ( ) at a and affords the carbinol 54 in 20 % yield, somewhat less than 10 % of the (2R) diastereoisomer, and 70 % of recovered starting material. From the carbinol 54, crystalline 55 is obtained, which may be converted through suitable manipulation of the protecting groups and ozonolysis, into A-deoxy-D-talo-hexose 56. The minor diastereoisomer similarly affords A-deoxy-D-xylo-hexose 57. Thus, in the yeast treatment of 53, as the results of the enzymic kinetic resolution, the (2S, 4S, 5R) diol 55, a carbohydrate-like chiral synthon, is accessible out of eight possible isomers. 

Following isolation of the desired diastereoisomer by partial crystallization, hydrogenation of the extraneous chlorine was carried out under standard palladium on carbon-catalysed conditions to give racemic voriconazole. Fortunately, resolution was readily achieved using (l/ )-10-camphorsulfonic acid, yielding a highly enantiopirre salt from which the desired voriconazole free base could be regenerated. Voriconazole (3) is obtained as a crystalline solid from isopropanol. 

The use of sulfoximines in the syntheses of optically active compounds has been reported [429]. A remarkable ketone methylcnation with optical resolution was realized. A highly selective diastereofacial addition of an enantiopure sulfoximine to a racemic ketone, chromatographic separation of the two diastereoisomers and reductive cleavage yielded both enantiomers of p-panasinsene [430], isolated from the root of ginseng, a herb used in Chinese folk medicine. 

Novel methods for reversed-phase, pressurized liquid-chromatographic resolution of nonesterified amino acid enantiomers by the formation of diastereoisomers using two chiral reagents, namely, 2,3,4,6-tetra-0-acetyl-/3-D-glucopyranosyl isothiocyanate (2) and 2,3,4-tri-O-acetyl-a-D-arabinopyranosyl isothiocyanate (30), have been reported.96,97... 

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