1.1 Porphyrins - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
1.1 Porphyrins - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
1.1 Porphyrins - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Discussion and Results 3<br />
purpose an additional functionality would have to be implemented (see paragraph 3.2.8).<br />
Also attempts to co-crystallize 53 with amino acids or other enantiomerically pure carboxylic<br />
acid derivatives failed. Thus, chiral chromatography was considered to resolve the mixture<br />
basing on diastereomeric interactions of the two present enantiomers with the<br />
enantiomerically pure stationary phase of the column leading to different retention times.<br />
Correspondingly, experiments were performed in the group of G. BRINGMANN utilizing a HPLC-<br />
CD coupling being able to directly identify the enantiomers present. The separation was<br />
achieved on a Lux column (Phenomenex®, Cellulose-1) at room temperature using an eluent<br />
mixture consistent of iso-propanol and hexanes in a 3 : 97 ratio on an analytical level. The<br />
experimental setup (see paragraph 6.1) allowed the detection via UV/Vis absorption and<br />
also by online CD measurements at 435 nm in a stopped-flow mode. 129 The results obtained<br />
for 53 are shown in Figure 29.<br />
The obtained elugrams clearly show two LC-UV peaks correspondent to two present<br />
enantiomers with retention times between 5 and 6 minutes in an approximate 1 : 1 ratio.<br />
While those species exhibit identical UV/Vis spectra, they show opposite CD effects. The<br />
fraction eluting first (peak A) thereby provides a negative CD signal and the second fraction a<br />
positive one at 435 nm. To determine the absolute configurations, full online CD spectra<br />
were recorded giving mirror-imaged CD curves with a negative first COTTON effect around<br />
435 nm for peak A and a positive one for peak B.<br />
To provide a robust and reliable assignment of the absolute configuration to the two atropo-<br />
enantiomers, quantum chemical CD calculations 129b,130 were conducted starting with a<br />
conformational analysis of the P-enantiomer of 53 with RI-BP86/SV(P) 131 . The analysis<br />
delivered eight relevant conformers for which single CD and UV/Vis spectra were calculated<br />
with the semiempirical ZINDO/S-CIS method 132 . These were summed, energetically weighted<br />
according to the BOLTZMANN statistics, to give a theoretical CD curve for the P-enantiomer of<br />
53. The corresponding CD curve for the M-enantiomer of 53 could be easily obtained by<br />
mirroring the spectrum calculated for P at the zero line. After UV/Vis correction 133 , both<br />
were compared to the experimentally obtained spectra. Thereby, the calculated CD curve for<br />
the M-enantiomer perfectly fits with the online CD curve of peak A while the one obtained<br />
for the P-enantiomer matches the CD curve measured for peak B. The absolute<br />
configurations hence are assigned like it has already been shown in Scheme 40.<br />
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