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Chiral Centre (chiral + centre)
Selected AbstractsDynamic Stereochemical Behaviour of Congested Ruthenium(II) Complexes Containing Asymmetric Thioether Ligands Based on Pyridine and PyrimidineEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 30 2008Giuseppe Tresoldi Abstract The asymmetric thioethers L [L = 2-pyridylmethyl 2,-pyrimidyl sulfide (pps) and 2-(4-methylpyrimidyl) 2,-pyridylmethyl sulfide (mps)] reacted with cis -[RuCl2(N,N -L,)2] [L, = di-2-pyridyl sulfide (dps); 2,2,-bis(4-methylpyridyl) sulfide (4mdps); 2,2,-bis(5-methylpyridyl) sulfide (5mdps)] to give the five-membered-ring chelate complexes [Ru(N,N -L,)2(Npyridine,S -L)]++ as the major products (92,95,%). Because the sulfur and ruthenium atoms are stereogenic centres, with (R) and (S) and , and , configurations, respectively, four isomers, including the enantiomers were obtained. At low temperature and in the methylene region of the 1H NMR spectra, two AB systems due to the enantiomer couples ,S ,R (a) and ,R ,S (b) were observed with abundances of 77,89 and 6,18,%, respectively. Furthermore, NMR spectroscopic investigations showed that the hybrid polydentate ligands L change their coordination mode. Thus, although a and b largely predominate, a mixture of species containing L and the Ru(N,N -L,)2 unit in the ratio 1:1 are present. The four-membered-ring chelate complexes [Ru(N,N -L,)2(Npyrimidine,S -L)]++ (c), as minor species (abundance 1,8,%), are always observed, whereas the dinuclear species [{Ru(N,N -L,)2}2(,-L)2]+4 (d, e) are observed when L, = dps or 5mdps. In these cases, four AB systems are assigned to dinuclear species d and e containing two bridging L that act as Npyridine,S- or Npyridine,Npyrimidine -donor ligands. The 1H NMR spectra are temperature dependent in that at low temperature the complexes undergo inversion of the chiral centre of the coordinated sulfur atom (a [rlhar2] b) and the dimer (d, e) and monomer (c) are in equilibrium; at higher temperatures the complexes undergo a structural dynamic rearrangement, which involves exchange between the coordinated and uncoordinated N atoms (b [rlhar2] c). One-dimensional band-shape analysis of the exchanging methylene and methyl proton signals showed that the energy barriers for inversion of the sulfur centre are in the 50,53 kJ,mol,1 range, whereas those for the higher-temperatures process are in the 62,68 kJ,mol,1 range. The possible mechanisms of the processes are discussed. NMR spectroscopic findings suggest that inversion at the sulfur centre occurs without any bond rupture, whereas the exchange, at higher temperatures (b [rlhar2] c), is a dissociative process involving the breaking of a Ru,Npyridine bond.(© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2008) [source] Stereodivergent Diversity Oriented Synthesis of Piperidine Alkaloids,,EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 22 2006Louis V. Adriaenssens Abstract Alkylidenetitanium reagents enable the reagent-controlled high throughput asymmetric synthesis of 2-substituted piperidines and rapid access to multiple cyclic imines using solid phase synthesis (SPS). The Schrock carbenes, generated by reduction of thioacetals, convert resin-bound esters into enol ethers. Treatment with acid releases amino ketones that are cyclized with TMSCl to give iminium salts. Reduction introduces a chiral centre at C-2, whose absolute stereochemistry is determined by a phenethylamine (PEA) chiral auxiliary. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2006) [source] Catalytic Hydrogenation of Cyanohydrin Esters as a Novel Approach to N -Acylated ,-Amino Alcohols , Reaction Optimisation by a Design of Experiment ApproachEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 7 2006Lars Veum Abstract The catalytic hydrogenation of acylated cyanohydrins and subsequent intramolecular migration of the acyl group to yield pharmaceutically interesting N -acyl ,-amino alcohols is shown to be a successful one-pot preparation method. The combination of a multistep DoE approach and high-throughput methodology proved to be an effective strategy for the optimisation of the reaction. With the favoured catalyst/solvent combination of nickel on alumina in dioxane, both hydrogenation and acyl group migration proceeded smoothly, giving the N -acyl ,-amino alcohols in yields (determined by GC) of up to 90,% for aliphatic substrates and up to 50,% for benzylic ones, the latter being more prone to side reactions. No racemisation was found to occur at the chiral centre of an aliphatic molecule when an enantiopure cyanohydrin ester was used, though a minor decrease in ee was observed with a benzylic substrate. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2006) [source] (2R,3R,5R)-2-[(2R,3aS,6aR)-2,3,3a,4,5,6a-Hexahydrofuro[2,3- b]furan-2-yl]-5-isopropenyl-2,3-dimethylcyclohexanone and (4aR,5S,7R)-5-isopropenyl-7,8,8-trimethyl-2,3,4,4a,5,6,7,8-octahydronaphthalene-4a-carbonitrileACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 9 2000Dianne D. Ellis The molecular structures of two chiral cyclohexanones based on R -(,)-carvone, C17H26O3, (I), and C17H23NO, (II), are reported here. The six-membered ring in (I) is in a chair conformation with the two fused five-membered rings of the furofuranyl substituent in a cis configuration. Compound (II) contains a decalin group; one ring has the chair form whilst the other is in a half-boat conformation. Both products have been characterized spectroscopically, however, neither NMR nor IR results could prove the stereochemistry at each chiral centre unambiguously. The crystal analyses were used to examine conformational properties of the compounds. [source] Increased rigidity of the chiral centre of tocainide favours stereoselectivity and use-dependent block of skeletal muscle Na+ channels enhancing the antimyotonic activity in vivoBRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY, Issue 7 2001Sophie Talon Searching for the structural requirements improving the potency and the stereoselectivity of Na+ channel blockers as antimyotonic agents, new derivatives of tocainide, in which the chiral carbon atom is constrained in a rigid ,-proline or pyrrolo-imidazolic cycle, were synthesized as pure enantiomers. Their ability to block Na+ currents, elicited from ,100 to ,20 mV at 0.3 Hz (tonic block) and 2 , 10 Hz (use-dependent block) frequencies, was investigated in vitro on single fibres of frog semitendinosus muscle using the vaseline-gap voltage-clamp method. The ,-proline derivative, To5, was 5 and 21 fold more potent than tocainide in producing tonic and 10 Hz-use-dependent block, respectively. Compared to To5, the presence of one methyl group on the aminic (To6) or amidic (To7) nitrogen atom decreased use-dependence by 2- and 6-times, respectively. When methylene moieties were present on both nitrogen atoms (To8), both tonic and use-dependent block were reduced. Contrarily to tocainide, all proline derivatives were stereoselective in relation to an increased rigidity. A further increase in the molecular rigidity as in pyrrolo-imidazolic derivatives markedly decreased the drug potency with respect to tocainide. Antimyotonic activity, evaluated as the shortening of the time of righting reflexes of myotonic adr/adr mice upon acute drug in vivo administration was 3 fold more effective for R-To5 than for R-Tocainide. Thus, constraining the chiral centre of tocainide in ,-proline cycle leads to more potent and stereoselective use-dependent Na+ channel blockers with improved therapeutic potential. British Journal of Pharmacology (2001) 134, 1523,1531; doi:10.1038/sj.bjp.0704366 [source] Advances in the enantioseparation of second-generation antidepressant drugs by electrodriven methodsELECTROPHORESIS, Issue 1 2006Roberto Mandrioli Abstract Stereochemistry is steadily increasing in importance in the development of new drugs, and the availability of pure enantiomer drugs can make therapy safer and more efficacious. In particular, almost all second-generation antidepressant drugs possess one or more chiral centres; however, only some of them are administered as single enantiomers. A fundamental part of the quality control of pharmaceutical formulations is the determination of enantiomeric excess and enantiomeric purity; this is also important for the therapeutic drug monitoring of depressed patients. For this purpose, efficient and reliable analytical methods are needed and electrodriven techniques (most of all CE, CEC and MEKC) are very efficient and inexpensive candidates for the role. In this review, the enantioselective electrodriven methods available for the analysis of second-generation antidepressant are presented and discussed. In particular, the following pharmacological classes of antidepressants will be considered: selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (fluoxetine, citalopram, paroxetine, sertraline); norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (reboxetine); serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (venlafaxine, milnacipran, duloxetine); and noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressants (mirtazapine). [source] Competition between Non-Classical Single and Double Epimerizations in Cyclitol ChemistryEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 9 2004Ralf Miethchen Abstract Two competitive regio- and stereoselective epimerization reactions were investigated in four cyclitols characterized by four contiguous OH groups with a cis - trans - trans sequence and by varied substituents (OMe, OBz, F, H) adjacent to this tetrol unit. The starting materials were synthesized from L -quebrachitol (compounds 5,7) and myo -inositol (compound 8). Their acetalization with the chloral/DCC reagent system gave cyclic acetals with one epimerized chiral ring atom and also with two epimerized chiral centres. The single epimerization takes place exclusively at the middle C-atom of the cis - trans triol unit in the tetrol sequence (products 15, 17, 19/20 and 24,27), whereas the double epimerization occurs at both of the "centrally located" C-atoms in the cis - trans - trans tetrol unit (products 16, 18, 21 and 28). The product ratios of singly to doubly inverted compounds change as follows: the lower the electron-withdrawing effect of the substituents adjacent to the tetrol unit, the higher the percentage of the corresponding doubly inverted product. However, the singly inverted products remain the major products in all cases. X-ray analyses are given for the starting material 1-fluoro-2- O -(methyl)cyclohexane-2,3,4,5,6-pentol (5) and for the products 1- O -cyclohexylcarbamoyl-2,3- O -(2,2,2-trichloroethylidene)5- O -(methyl)cyclohexane-1,2,3,4,5-pentol (17), 3- O -acetyl-1- O -benzoyl-6- O -cyclohexylcarbamoyl-2- O -methyl-4,5- O -(2,2,2-trichloroethylidene)- muco -inositol (22) and 2,3-di- O -ethylidene)-(+/-)- chiro -inositol (24). (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2004) [source] Identification of diastereomeric chlorophyll allomers by atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometryRAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY, Issue 11 2003J. Stuart Walker Atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (APCI-LC/MS) has been used for identification of the epimers of hydroxy, methoxy and methoxylactone allomers of chlorophyll a (132 -HO-chl a, 132 -MeO-chl a and 151 -MeO-lact-chl a), the hydroxy allomer of bacteriochlorophyll a (132 -HO-bchl a) and the hydroxy and methoxylactone allomers of bacterioviridin a (132 -HO-bvir a and 151 -MeO-lact-bvir a). The APCI mass spectra show that facile fragmentations involve the methoxyl or hydroxyl groups at the C-132 or C-151 chiral centres. Losses involving the C-132 or C-151 hydroxyl or methoxyl groups occur more easily from the S -epimer than from the R -epimer due to the greater relief of the steric strain associated with interaction with the bulky C-17 substituent. The differences in mass spectrometric fragmentation can be used as a diagnostic tool for the assignment of the stereochemical configuration at the C-132 or C-151 chiral centres. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] 5-Hydroxyalkyl derivatives of tert -butyl 2-oxo-2,5-dihydro-1H -pyrrole-1-carboxylate: diastereoselectivity of the Mukaiyama crossed-aldol-type reactionACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 4 2009Olivier Vallat The title compounds, rac -(1,R,2R)- tert -butyl 2-(1,-hydroxyethyl)-3-(2-nitrophenyl)-5-oxo-2,5-dihydro-1H -pyrrole-1-carboxylate, C17H20N2O6, (I), rac -(1,S,2R)- tert -butyl 2-[1,-hydroxy-3,-(methoxycarbonyl)propyl]-3-(2-nitrophenyl)-5-oxo-2,5-dihydro-1H -pyrrole-1-carboxylate, C20H24N2O8, (II), and rac -(1,S,2R)- tert -butyl 2-(4,-bromo-1,-hydroxybutyl)-5-oxo-2,5-dihydro-1H -pyrrole-1-carboxylate, C13H20BrNO4, (III), are 5-hydroxyalkyl derivatives of tert -butyl 2-oxo-2,5-dihydropyrrole-1-carboxylate. In all three compounds, the tert -butoxycarbonyl (Boc) unit is orientated in the same manner with respect to the mean plane through the 2-oxo-2,5-dihydro-1H -pyrrole ring. The hydroxyl substituent at one of the newly created chiral centres, which have relative R,R stereochemistry, is trans with respect to the oxo group of the pyrrole ring in (I), synthesized using acetaldehyde. When a larger aldehyde was used, as in compounds (II) and (III), the hydroxyl substituent was found to be cis with respect to the oxo group of the pyrrole ring. Here, the relative stereochemistry of the newly created chiral centres is R,S. In compound (I), O,H...O hydrogen bonding leads to an interesting hexagonal arrangement of symmetry-related molecules. In (II) and (III), the hydroxyl groups are involved in bifurcated O,H...O hydrogen bonds, and centrosymmetric hydrogen-bonded dimers are formed. The Mukaiyama crossed-aldol-type reaction was successful when using the 2-nitrophenyl-substituted hydroxypyrrole, or the unsubstituted hydroxypyrrole, and boron trifluoride diethyl ether as catalyst. The synthetic procedure leads to a syn configuration of the two newly created chiral centres in all three compounds. [source] Geometrical and algebraic approach to central molecular chirality: A chirality index and an Aufbau description of tetrahedral moleculesCHIRALITY, Issue 7 2006Salvatore Capozziello Abstract On the basis of empirical Fischer projections, we develop an algebraic approach to the central molecular chirality of tetrahedral molecules. The elements of such an algebra are obtained from the 24 projections which a single chiral tetrahedron can generate in S and R absolute configurations. They constitute a matrix representation of the O(4) orthogonal group. According to this representation, given a molecule with n chiral centres, it is possible to define an "index of chirality , , {n, p}", where n is the number of stereogenic centres of the molecule and p the number of permutations observed under rotations and superimpositions of the tetrahedral molecule to its mirror image. The chirality index not only assigns the global chirality of a given tetrahedral chain, but indicates also a way to predict the same property for new compounds, which can be built up consistently. Chirality 18:462,468, 2006. © 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] | ||||||||||