Amplification of the chiroptical response of UV-transparent amines and alcohols by N-phthalimide derivatization enabling absolute configuration determination through ECD computational analysis??

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Pub Date: 2020-02-17 DOI: 10.1039/D0OB00052C

Abstract

The stereoselective transformation of chiral UV-transparent amines and alcohols to phthalimides has proved to be a simple and efficient method to enhance the chiroptical response of these substrates allowing their reliable absolute configuration determination by computational analysis of ECD spectra. Such a transformation also leads to a significant reduction in the molecular conformational flexibility thus simplifying the conformational analysis required by the computational treatment. The method described herein thus allows the absolute configuration assignment to these challenging substrates to be much easier and reliable.

Graphical abstract: Amplification of the chiroptical response of UV-transparent amines and alcohols by N-phthalimide derivatization enabling absolute configuration determination through ECD computational analysis
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