Tartaric acid, racemic, resolution

R,5,S)-l-Allyl-2,5-dimethylpiperazine has been prepared by direct enantiospecific synthesis [29,39] and via classical resolution of the racemic piperazine [23,29]. Kilo-scale batches of (-)-(2R,55)-l-allyl-2,5-dimethylpi-perazine have been prepared from tra s-2,5-dimethylpiperazine by the three-step monoallylation shown in Scheme 5, followed by a resolution using di-p-toluoyl-D-tartaric acid. This resolution has also been achieved in a two-stage process using (—)-camphoric acid followed by di-p-toluoyl-D-tartaric acid, giving (—)-(22 ,5S)-l-allyl-2,5-dimethylpiperazine in >99% optical purity. 

Thanks to quinicine 3 and cinchonicine 4 Pasteur achieved the first separation of racemic tartaric acid. This resolution is considered a milestone in organic chemistry. Conversely, the transformation of quinotoxine 3 into quinine in three steps is part of the (formal) Rabe-Kindler/Woodward-Doering synthesis of quinine as has recently been reaffirmed by R.M. Williams and his group (cf. Section 11.5.3). Meroquinene ester 7 is a 3,4-disubstituted piperidine formed from quininone 5 (cinchoninone) and base in the presence of 302. In this reaction, an activated bridgehead lactam is a key intermediate that is opened by KOBu1. Three stereocenters are lost and only two stereocenters survive in the course of this transformation (Scheme 12.3) [4]. 

To our knowledge, one alternative route to simple enantiopure quinuclidine-2-carboxylic acid has recently been described by Corey who assembled target molecule 68 whereas racemic 68 was first synthesized several decades ago by Prelog and [44]. Parent quinuclidine-2-carboxylic acid ester 68 that is structurally related to proline and pipecolinic acid was obtained from commercial 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-piperidine in six chemical steps including one tartaric acid-mediated resolution (Scheme 12.17) [45]. A cyanoactivated intramolecular SN2 reaction delivered the strained [2.2.2]bicyclic system. The cyano group serves as a handle of further functionality and elaboration. 

Acetophenone similarly gives an oxime, CHjCCgHjlCtNOH, of m.p. 59° owing to its lower m.p. and its greater solubility in most liquids, it is not as suitable as the phenylhydrazone for characterising the ketone. Its chief use is for the preparation of 1-phenyl-ethylamine, CHjCCgHslCHNHj, which can be readily obtained by the reduction of the oxime or by the Leuckart reaction (p. 223), and which can then be resolved by d-tartaric acid and /-malic acid into optically active forms. The optically active amine is frequently used in turn for the resolution of racemic acids. 

The separation of a racemic mixture into its enantiomeric components is termed resolution The first resolution that of tartaric acid was carried out by Louis Pasteur m 1848 Tartaric acid IS a byproduct of wine making and is almost always found as its dextrorotatory 2R 3R stereoisomer shown here m a perspective drawing and m a Fischer projection... 

BE 613 545 (American Cyanamid appl. 6.2.1962 USA-prior. 23.1.1962). racemate resolution p/ (+)-2-aminobutanol with tartaric acid ... 

Enantiopure (R)- and (S)-nipecotic acid (Nip) derivatives 64 were obtained following classical resolution of ethyl nipecotate with either enantiomer of tartaric acid and successive recrystallization of the corresponding salts [153, 154, 156] or by resolution of racemic nipecotic acid with enantiomerically pure camphorsul-fonic acid [154]. N-Boc protected pyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid (PCA) 65 for the synthesis of homo-ohgomers [155] was prepared by GeUman from trans-4-hydroxy-L-prohne according to a known procedure [157]. 

The bases generally employed in such resolutions have been natural alkaloids, such as strychnine, brucine, and ephedrine. These alkaloids are more complex than the general case shown in the figure, in that they contain several chiral centres (ephedrine is shown in Section 3.4.4). Tartaric acid (see Section 3.4.5) has been used as an optically active acid to separate racemic bases. Of course, not all materials contain acidic or basic groups that would lend themselves to this type of resolution. There are ways of introducing such groups, however, and a rather neat one is shown here. 

It is noteworthy that a safer and more efficient synthesis of catalysts 15 and 16 was recently developed involving a classical resolution of racemic 15 and 16 using commercially available tartaric acids [101],... 

The initial medicinal chemistry route to the azabicyclo[3.3.0]octane-3-carboxylic acid produced the azabicyclo system in a diastereoselective but racemic manner, and required a classical resolution to achieve enantioenriched material (Teetz et al., 1984a, b 1988). Reaction of (R)-methyl 2-acetamido-3-chloropropanoate (43) and 1-cyclopentenylpyrrolidine (44) in DMF followed by an aqueous acidic work-up provided racemic keto ester 45 in 84% yield (Scheme 10.11). Cyclization of 45 in refluxing aqueous hydrochloric acid provided the bicyclic imine, which was immediately reduced under acidic hydrogenation conditions. The desired cis-endo product 46 was obtained upon recrystaUization. The acid was protected as the benzyl ester using thionyl chloride and benzyl alcohol, providing subunit 47 as the racemate. Resolution of 47 was accomplished by crystallization with benzyloxy-carbonyl-L-phenylalanine or L-dibenzoyl-tartaric acid. 

An efficient and simple kinetic resolution of the racemic Betti base 387 was achieved via its reaction with acetone in the presence of L-(- -)-tartaric acid. When a suspension of racemic 387 in acetone was treated with L-(- -)-tartaric acid, the (A)-enantiomer formed a crystalline L-tartrate salt 389 this was filtered off, and the (iJ)-enantiomer could be isolated as a naphth[l,2-< ]oxazine derivative 388 from the filtrate (Equation 41). Both enantiomers were obtained in excellent yields and ee s. The enantioseparation is presumed to take place via a kinetically controlled N,0-deketalization of the (3)-naphth[l,2-< ]oxazine derivative <2005JOC8617>. An improved method for the enantioseparation of 387 was developed by the reaction of the ring-chain tautomeric l,3-diphenyl-3,4-dihydro-2//-naphth[2,l-< ][l,3]oxazine (41 X, Y = H) and L-(-f)-tartaric acid, yielding the crystalline 389 in 85% yield <2007SL488>. 

Synthesis The analgesic activity of racemorphan is due to the (-) isomer, levorphanol, which is obtained by resolving the racemate with (+)-D-tartaric acid. Resolution can also be carried out on the intermediate 1-(4-Methoxy-benzyl)-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octahydro-isoquinoline 6 prior to N-methylation (Grewe 1946, Schnider and Hellerbach, 1950, Schnider and Griissner, 1951, Ehrhart and Ruschig 1972, Kleemann et al. 1999). 

Chiral acids, such as (+)-tartaric acid, (—)-malic acid, (—)-mandelic acid, and (+)-camphor-10-sulfonic acid, are used for the resolution of a racemic base. 

Other methods, called kinetic resolutions, are excellent when applicable. The procedure takes advantage of differences in reaction rates of enantiomers with chiral reagents. One enantiomer may react more rapidly, thereby leaving an excess of the other enantiomer behind. For example, racemic tartaric acid can be resolved with the aid of certain penicillin molds that consume the dextrorotatory enantiomer faster than the levorotatory enantiomer. Asa result, almost pure (—)-tartaric acid can be recovered from the mixture ... 

The crystallization procedure employed by Pasteur for his classical resolution of ( )-tartaric acid (Section 5-1C) has been successful only in a very few cases. This procedure depends on the formation of individual crystals of each enantiomer. Thus if the crystallization of sodium ammonium tartrate is carried out below 27°, the usual racemate salt does not form a mixture of crystals of the (+) and (—) salts forms instead. The two different kinds of crystals, which are related as an object to its mirror image, can be separated manually with the aid of a microscope and subsequently may be converted to the tartaric acid enantiomers by strong acid. A variation on this method of resolution is the seeding of a saturated solution of a racemic mixture with crystals of one pure enantiomer in the hope of causing crystallization of just that one enantiomer, thereby leaving the other in solution. Unfortunately, very few practical resolutions have been achieved in this way. 

Resolution of a racemic base can be accomplished in the same manner with tartaric acid. 

Some amide derivatives have been reported to form inclusion complex with a wide variety of organic compounds.9 Optically active amide derivatives are expected to include one enantiomer of a racemic guest selectively. According to this idea, some amide derivatives of tartaric acid (11-13) were designed as chiral hosts.10 As will be described in the following section, these amide hosts were found to be useful for resolution of binaphthol (BNO) (14) and related compounds (15,16). 

Kozma, D., Bocskei, Zs., Kassai, Cs., Simon, K., and Fogassy, E. Optical resolution of racemic alcohols by diastereoisomeric complex formation with 0,0 -dibenzoyl-(2R,3R)-tartaric acid, the crystal structure of the (-)-lR,2 S, 5R-menthol.O,0,-dibenzoyl-(2R,3R)-tartaric acid complex. J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun. 1996, 753-754. 

This would not be necessary nowadays as the preparation and resolution of 8 is an undergraduate experiment.5 A more normal reductive amination gives racemic 8 and crystallisation of the tartrate salt 12 from methanol gives enantiomerically pure (+)-(R)-S after neutralisation. In fact this nearly perfect resolution gives both enantiomers of 8. One tartrate salt crystallises out from MeOH and the other remains in solution. The salts are diastereoisomers and have different physical properties. Since no covalent bond is formed in making the salt 12, simple neutralisation with NaOH gives pure amine 8 and the tartaric acid remains in solution as its sodium salt. 

Asymmetric hydrogenation methodology does not allow simple access to cyclic amino acid derivatives, at present. To obtain D-proline, a dynamic resolution with L-proline as the starting material can be performed. The presence of butyraldehyde allows racemization of the L-proline in solution, whereas the desired D-isomer is removed as a salt with D-tartaric acid (Scheme 2.12 see also Chapter 6).2930... 

It is well-known that catalytic amounts of aldehyde can induce racemization of a-amino acids through the reversible formation of Schiff bases.61 Combination of this technology with a classic resolution leads to an elegant asymmetric transformation of L-proline to D-proline (Scheme 6.8).62 63 When L-proline is heated with one equivalent of D-tartaric acid and a catalytic amount of n-butyraldehyde in butyric acid, it first racemizes as a result of the reversible formation of the proline-butyraldehyde Schiff base. The newly generated D-proline forms an insoluble salt with D-tartaric acid and precipitates out of the solution, whereas the soluble L-proline is continuously being racemized. The net effect is the continuous transformation of the soluble L-proline to the insoluble D-proline-D-tartaric acid complex, resulting in near-complete conversion. Treatment of the D-proline-D-tartaric acid complex with concentrated ammonia in methanol liberates the D-proline (16) (99% ee, with 80-90% overall yield from L-proline). This is a typical example of a dynamic resolution where L-proline is completely converted to D-proline with simultaneous in situ racemization. As far as the process is concerned, this is an ideal case because no extra step is required for recycle and racemization of the undesired enantiomer and a 100% chemical yield is achievable. The only drawback of this process is the use of stoichiometric amount of D-tartaric acid, which is the unnatural form of tartaric acid and is relatively expensive. Fortunately, more than 90% of the D-tartaric acid is recovered at the end of the process as the diammonium salt that can be recycled after conversion to the free acid.64... 

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