摘要:
The separation of symmetric, remote, secondary diol stereoisomers by steroselective enzyme-catalyzed acetylation with acetic anhydride in anhydrous, low polarity organic solvents or by stereoselective enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis of the corresponding peracetate in aqueous media is described. Whether or not an alcohol is acetylated or an acetate is hydrolyzed is determined solely by its own stereochemical arrangement and not by the stereochemistry at any other stereogenic center. Since the enzyme used, Amano P lipoprotein lipase from Pseudomonas species, acetylates secondary alcohol stereogenic centers of the (R)-configuration, an (R,R)-diol is converted to its diacetate, a meso-diol is converted to the monoacetate at its (R)-stereogenic center, and an (S,S)-diol is left unchanged. Similarly, when hydrolysis is used, (R)-stereogenic centers are hydrolyzed so that the (R,R)-stereoisomer is converted to the corresponding diol while the (S,S)-stereoisomer remains a diacetate. The resulting mixture is separated, and the remaining acetates are removed by hydrolysis to give diols and triols of high stereochemical purity. Diols successively separated by esterification include alpha,alpha-dimethyl-1,4-benzenedimethanol, 1, alpha,alpha'-dimethyl-1,3-benzenedimethanol, 4, alpha,alpha'-dimethyl-2,6-pyridinedimethanol, 5, and alpha,alpha-dimethyl-4,4-biphenylenedimethanol, 6. For two cases, alpha,alpha'-dimethyl-2,6-pyridinedimethanol, 5, and alpha,alpha',alpha''-trimethyl-1,3,5-benzenetrimethanol, 7, the separation was achieved using the hydrolysis procedure. The stereochemical purity of each of the separated diol stereoisomers was determined by evaluating the NMR spectrum of its bis-MTPA ester. In most cases, it was possible to establish both the stereochemical purity of the fraction and the amount of each contaminating stereoisomer that was present. The diol products are expected to be of value for preparing optically active polymers and optically active crown ethers.