Journal
CHIRALITY
Volume 19, Issue 9, Pages 716-730Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/chir.20368
Keywords
supercritical fluid chromatography; chiral separations; enantiomeric separations; vibrational circular dichroism; electronic circular dichroism; optical rotation; determination of absolute stereochemistry; phenylglycidol
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Phenylglycidols substituted in the 2-, 3-, and 4- positions with fluorine, chlorine, and trifluoromethyl, and with methoxy in the 3- position, were synthesized from the corresponding E-cinnamic acids and separated into their (RR)- and (SS)- enantiomers using subcritical fluid chromatography with mixtures of MeOH in CO2, on either a Chiralpak AD or AS chiral stationary phase. These compounds and commercially-available (RR)- and (S,S)-phenylglycidol were analyzed for their vibrational circular dichroism (VCD), electronic circular dichroism (ECD), and optical rotation (OR) properties to exemplify a strategy whereby the absolute stereochemistry of common and key chiral intermediates is established early in the structure-activity and structure-property relationship phase of a drug discovery program in a pharmaceutical company. From this study, substituents in the phenyl group of the synthesized molecules were found not to grossly alter spectroscopic features, and therefore, diagnostic absorption bands in the respective VCD spectra, and the sign and shape of the measured ECD curves could be used to determine and track the absolute stereochemistry of analogs without necessarily requiring time-consuming ab initio calculations of all low energy conformers for all compounds. VCD, OF, and ECD calculations for the determination of absolute configuration carried out at the DFT level with the hybrid B3PW91 functional and the TZVP basis set were found to be especially useful in this study. Chirality 19:716-730, 2007. (c) 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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