A sequential application of kinetic resolution and polymer-supported scavenging for the isolation of chiral secondary alcohols
A sequential application of kinetic resolution and polymer-supported scavenging for the isolation of chiral secondary alcohols
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DOI:
10.1021/jo010529u
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发表时间:
2001-08-10
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Janda, KD
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作者:
Córdova, A;Tremblay, MR;Janda, KD
The preparation of enantiomerically pure or enantioenriched organic compounds is of great importance. 1 As such, the development of chemical and biochemical catalysts for both enantioselective synthesis and the kinetic resolution of racemates has advanced at an accelerated pace. 2-4 In particular, kinetic resolution is important in asymmetric synthesis since it provides both enantiomers of a compound. Developments in the areas of combinatorial chemistry, catalytic antibodies, sitedirected mutagenesis, and directed evolution of biocatalysts have fueled the discovery and optimization of both chemical and biological catalysts. 5, 6 As powerful as these technologies have become, the catalyst discovery process still faces a bottleneck centered around the analysis and processing of both catalyst selectivity and activity. 7 In the case of kinetic resolution, the products need to be separated to enable analysis of catalyst activity and selectivity. Therefore, techniques that facilitate the separation of kinetic resolution products without the need for column chromatography are highly desirable. The preparation of chiral sec-alcohols by catalytic processes is a very active area of research because of their importance as building blocks in asymmetric synthesis. 2c Kinetic resolution can be performed whereby a racemic mixture of sec-alcohols is transformed into optically active products (eg, an ester and remaining alcohol) that can be separated typically by column chromatography. To circumvent the need for time-consuming column chromatography, esterification of sec-alcohols with succinic anhydride followed by an acid-base extraction has been reported. 8 This principle has also been extended to the conversion of alcohols to sulfate esters. 9 It should be noted that while these two methods are important, their scope is limited to large-scale reactions. Furthermore, their generality is hampered by the choice of effective acylating agents. A soluble polymer scavenging approach of a racemic trifluoroethyl carbonate through lipase-catalyzed transesterification with poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG) has also been reported. 10 However, this methodology also presents several limitations. First, a unique catalyst accepting PEG is needed. Second, an elaborate synthetic scheme to form each activated carbonate is required for each new acyl donor. More recently, Vedejs has reported a parallel kinetic resolution performed under triphasic conditions. 11 During this process, one of the enantiomers reacts with a polymer-supported reagent enabling separation of the enantiomers by filtration. To complement these existing technologies, we present a method to separate the products from the kinetic resolution of sec-alcohols.