ON THE USE OF THE O-METHYLMANDELATE ESTER FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF ABSOLUTE-CONFIGURATION OF SECONDARY ALCOHOLS
ON THE USE OF THE O-METHYLMANDELATE ESTER FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF ABSOLUTE-CONFIGURATION OF SECONDARY ALCOHOLS
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DOI:
10.1021/jo00362a036
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发表时间:
1986-06-13
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
SPRINGER, JP
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作者:
TROST, BM;BELLETIRE, JL;SPRINGER, JP
With the current emphasis on obtaining enantiomerically pure compounds, methods for resolution, determination of enantiomeric purities, and determination of ab-solute configurations become important. 1 Reagents that function in all three regards are most desirable. Raban and Mislow2 pointed out the utility of O-methylmandelate derivatives for determination of enantiomeric purity. Dale and Mosher3 examined this approach in more detail-especially with respect to the mandelate esters and a-(tri-fluoromethyl)-0-methylmandelate esters. For these two, conformational models were developed to rationalize the sense of nonequivalence. The model chose a conformation for the former esters in which the OH group eclipses the carbonyl group of the ester due to hydrogen bonding and, for the latter esters, one in which the trifluoromethyl group eclipses the carbonyl group. No model was proposed for the O-methylmandelate although the trends in chemical shift differences between the diastereomeric pairs followed the mandelate esters. Little use of this empirical method for assignment of absolute configuration has been made. Furthermore, the O-methylmandelates have been less used because of the problems of racemization during esterification and the lack of a model for assignment of absolute configuration. Since O-methylmandelates appeared to represent a facile approach to all three goals for resolving