A chemistry experiment that is based on primary research is
described. Experiment activities chiral supramolecular assemblies on behalf of a
determination of enantiomeric excess through 1H NMR spectroscopy. This report
describes a delivery of an experiment to a cohort of students and, as a result of
comments of participants, an improved protocol is presented. Special attention
has been given to facilitate adoption in other institutions through providing
complete teaching support materials, as well as technical guidance to support
the experiment. An enantiomeric excess of chiral compounds is a key parameter
that regulates its activity or therapeutic action. A current paradigm on behalf
of a speedy measurement of enantiomeric excess by NMR is based on a formation
of diastereomeric complexes among a chiral analyte as well as a chiral
resolution agent, leading to (at least) two species with no symmetry relationship.
Here modern an efficient technique of determining the enantiomeric excess using
a symmetric achiral molecule as a resolving agent, which is based on
complexation with analytical (in the rapid exchange regime) without a formation
of diastereomers.
Calculating an enan tiomeric excess of an
asymmetric transformation is a daily task in lieu of synthetic chemists, as
well as being talented to accurately measure the enrichment of a product is crucial
for a wide range of chemicals, especially in areas such as asymmetric catalysis.
A role in many biological events, but is also important in the development of
new pharmaceutical products for the control of chiral catalysis of organic
asymmetric reactions and in various aspects of supramolecular science.
Intensive research area. A NMR’s spectrum can be gotten in less than 5 minutes as
well as, consequently, can reduce the analysis times related to an established
chiral chromatography method
Scheme 1) are of a principal amine can be contingent by
measuring a ratio of diastereoisomers to meads experimental finished NMR
spectroscopy. A use of this type of assembly introduces undergraduate students
in the concepts of enantiomeric excess, chiral change reagents as well as
chiral derivatizing agents while also being based on their knowledge of
stereoisomerism (in particular, a difference between enantiomers as well as
diastereomers and their respective spectroscopic properties. (Fossey & et.al,
2016)
Experimental of NMR’s spectrum and calculate the EE%
(Enantiomeric Excess)
A NMR data documented from a samples prepared in a
laboratory session are returned to a students in electronic format as well as
then processed using a NMR processing software. Students also receive printed
NMR spectra of each of the three components as pure compounds in chloroform.(
Labuta, & et.al, 2013)
An ee discrimination the technique presented here is
fundamentally based on the concept of prochiralit defined as "the
geometric property of an achiral object (or spatial arrangement of points or
atoms) that is capable of becoming chiral in a single step of desymmetry.
prochiral
(Wilson, 1982)
Results and Discussion of NMRs spectrum and calculate the
EE% (Enantiomeric Excess)
A most serious feature to obtain good quality data is a
removal of adventitious water from a NMR samples. It was found that an addition
of activated 4 Å molecular sieves to all the solutions used in this experiment
was key to gain good quality NMR spectra. This allowed a precise determination
of the diastereomeric proportions, which gave inferred values that were
accurate within ± 10% of the true values in the hands of undergraduate
students. The chemical change is associated with a Larmor frequency of a
nuclear turn to its chemical environment. Tetramethylsilane [TMS; (CH3) 4Si] is
generally used as a standard to determine the chemical change of the compounds:
δTMS = 0 ppm. In other words, the frequencies of the chemicals are measured for
a 1H or 13C core of a 1H or 13C TMS resonance sample. It is important to
understand the trend of chemical change in terms of NMR interpretation. The
chemical change of a proton NMR is affected by the immediacy to an
electronegative atoms (O, N, halogen) in addition to unsaturated groups (C = C,
C = O, aromatic). (Guo, (2004).)
References of NMRs spectrum and calculate the EE%
(Enantiomeric Excess)
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Fossey, J., & et.al. (2016). Rapid Determination of
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