3-Menthoxybiphenyl-4-carboxylic acid: a versatile resolving agent and reagent for determination of the absolute configuration of benzylic alcohols
作者:Shunsuke Kuwahara、Nobuyoshi Tasaki、Yuri Suzuki、Mizuki Nakagawa、Mari Ikeda、Yoichi Habata
DOI:10.1016/j.tetasy.2017.05.008
日期:2017.7
A versatile reagent for the chiral resolution and determination of the absolute configuration of benzylic alcohols, (-)-3-menthoxybiphenyl-4-carboxylic acid, is reported. (-)-3-menthoxybiphenyl-4-carboxylic acid was condensed with racemic benzylic alcohols to yield diastereomeric 3-menthoxybiphenyl-4-carboxylic esters, which were separated by reversed-phase HPLC. The absolute configurations of the 3-menthoxybiphenyl-4-carboxylic esters were unambiguously determined by exciton-coupled circular dichroism. Hydrolysis of the 3-menthoxybiphenyl-4-carboxylic esters yielded enantiopure alcohols, and their absolute configurations were simultaneously determined. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.