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Asymmetric hydrosilylation of the cyclic imine 17 (Approach A) was precedented on simpler substrates by Buchwald but the method requires an expensive and highly air-sensitive chiral htanocene catalyst (Scheme 8.5) [6]. 

It has been reported that the cleavage of SAMP hydrazones can proceed smoothly with a saturated aqueous oxalic acid, and this allows the efficient recovery of the expensive and acid-sensitive chiral auxiliaries SAMP and RAMP. No racemization of the chiral ketones occurs during the weak acid oxalic acid treatment, so this method is essential for compounds sensitive to oxidative cleavage.393... 

Garcia-Ruiz, C., and Marina, M. L. (2006). Sensitive chiral analysis by capillary electrophoresis. Electrophoresis 27, 195—212. 

Highly sensitive chiral discrimination of amino acids with low ee was described. Amino acids with low ee act as a chiral initiator of asymmetric autocatalysis. In the presence of amino acids with low ee, pyrimidine-5-carbaldehyde was treated with z-P Zn to produce chiral pyrimidyl alkanol with the absolute configuration correlated with that of the amino acid by the consecutive asymmetric autocatalysis with amplification of ee. In addition, direct examination of extraterrestrial chirality was performed using meteorites by applying the asymmetric autocatalysis as the chiral sensor. The results indicated the presence of some chiral factor in the meteorites other than known organic compounds such as amino acids. 

The one-handed helicity of 28 induced by a small amount of chiral (R)-39 and subsequently amplified by an achiral amine 40 (Fig. 16) can also be memorized in the same way by the replacement of (R)-39 and 40 with achiral amines [87]. The chiral amplification combined with the macromolecular helicity memory will offer a highly sensitive, chirality sensing method for chiral molecules even when their optical activities are too small to detect by conventional spectroscopic means. 

The chiral sources employed include circularly polarized light, chiral sensitizers, chiral solvents, chiral substituents, chiral host-guest assemblies, and chiral crystalline environments. 

Ruebsam, F., Evers, A. M., Michel, C., Giannis, A. Z-Selective oiefination of base-sensitive chiral 3-hydroxy-a-aminoaldehydes using a modified Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction. Tetrahedron 1997, 53,1707-1714. 

The ideal way to obtain pure drug enantiomers would be enantioselective synthesis. This, however, is rarely practical, usually complicated, and almost always expensive. There is little control over which chiral form of a chemical compound will be formed during a typical production process. This lack of control generally results in production of equal amounts of the various possible chiral forms of a compound. Often, therefore, separation of intermediates or final products from a racemic mixture is required. Increasing interest is being paid to development of methods of efficient, high throughput, and sensitive chiral separations, control of chemical synthesis, assessment... 

In contrast to air-sensitive chiral Rh-phosphine complexes, the chiral Ru complexes of BINAP or BINAP analogues were known to be more effectively... 

Alcohol benzylation. The derivatization is catalyzed by TMSOTf, which does not cause racemization of sensitive chiral compounds. 

For these purposes, various functional TLMs have aheady been realized. For example, sensitive chiral recognition by circular-dichroism TLM (CD-TLM) was reported for synthesis and analysis of drugs on microchips [6]. Other reports have described an electrochemical TLM [7], flow... 

Yamanchi M, Mawatari K, Hibara A, Tokeshi M, Kitamori T (2006) Circular-dichroism thermal lens microscope for sensitive chiral analysis on microchip. Anal Chem 78 2646... 

Biochemical and pharmaceutical research has created a need for simple, sensitive chiral assays for amino acids. One of the most successful and widely used reagents is... 

Similarly, the product from a DHAP-depending aldolase-catalyzed reaction is a chemically labile 2-oxo-l,3,4-triol, which is phosphorylated at position 1. Dephosphorylation under mild conditions, without isolation of the intermediate phosphate species, by using acid phosphatase is a method frequently used to obtain the chiral polyol products [512-515]. As shown in Scheme 2.76, enzymatic dephosphorylation of the aldol product obtained from 5-substituted hexanal derivatives under mild conditions gave the sensitive chiral keto-triol in good yield. In this case the product could be transformed into (-i-)-exo-brevicomin, the sex pheromone of the pine bark beetle. 

Phenoxides attack the 3-membered ring of a-epoxy ketones to give a 2-aryloxy enone (Eq. 25). This reaction can be conducted in a biphasic system in the presence of a PTC under sonication. Despite a prolonged irradiation time, the mild conditions allow complete preservation of the sensitive chiral center. 

Ke C, Yang C, Mori T, Wada T, Liu Y, Inoue Y (2009) Catalytic enantiodifferentiating photocyclodimerization of 2-anthracenecarboxylic acid mediated by a non-sensitizing chiral metallosupramolecular host. Angew Chem hit Ed 48 6675-6677... 

For these purposes, various functional TLMs have already been realized. For exanple, sensitive chiral recognition by circular-dichroism TLM (CD-TLM) was reported for synthesis and analysis of drugs on microchips [6], Other reports have described an electrochemical TLM [7], flow sensing TLM, UV TLM [8], and TLM spectrometer [9]. As important functions for science and technology in micro- and nano-fluidics, three functions are highly desired individual molecule detection as the ultimate sensitivity, fast (real-time) imaging, and femtosecond time-resolved measurement for investigating molecular dynamics in a nano-space. 

Liang G, Choi K, Ahmed YBH, Alothman ZA, Chung DS. Highly sensitive chiral analysis of amino acids by in-line single drop microextraction and capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection. Anal. Chim. Acta 2010 677 37-42. 

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