Solid State Organic Chemistry: Efficient Reactions, Remarkable Yields, and Stereoselectivity
Solid State Organic Chemistry: Efficient Reactions, Remarkable Yields, and Stereoselectivity
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固态有机化学:高效反应、显着产率和立体选择性
DOI:
10.1002/chin.199616307
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发表时间:
1996
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通讯作者:
F. Toda
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作者:
F. Toda
Most organic reactions havebeen studied in solu-tion. One reason for this might be Aristotle’s famous philosophy,“No Coopora nisi Fluida”, which means,“No reaction occurs in the absence of solvent.” This philosophy had a big influence on the evolution of the modern sciences in Europe. In the ancient period of Aristotle, it was not realized that many reactions occur in the absence of solvent. For example, many biological reactions, such as digestion of food in the stomach and bowels, the reaction between cells such as ovum and spermatid, and the multiplication of the cell, are more solid state than solution reactions. Neverthe-less, it is verycurious that almost all reactions are still carried out in solution, even when a special reason for the use of solvent cannot be found. We have found that quite a few reactions proceed well in the solid state. In some cases, the solid state organic reaction occurs more efficiently and more selectively than does the solution reaction, since molecules in a crystal are arranged tightly and regularly. When more selective reaction in the solid state is required, the host-guest chemistry technique, for example, is applicable. Reac-tion of the guest compound as its inclusion complex crystal with a chiral host compound in the solid state gives an optically active reaction product. Various host compounds were designed by our simple principle. Although both thermal and photochemical reactions can be carried out selectively in inclusion crystals, the selectivity of the latter reaction is usually higher than that of the former.The occurrence of efficient solidstate reactions shows that molecules of reactant and reagent can move in the solid state. In fact, host-guest inclusion complexation occurs by mixing both crystals in the solid state. Surprisingly, solid state complexation even occurs selectively. For example, mixing of race-mic guest and optically active host in the solid state gives an inclusion complex of one enantiomer of the guest with the host, fromwhich optically activeguest is obtained. Such efficient chiral recognition was observed in many inclusion crystals, and efficient optical resolution was achieved by usingthis phenom-enon. The most interesting application of chiral