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Many biaryl compounds possess atropisomerism due to the steric hindrance of substituents at the ortho-position of the two aromatic moieties. Upon heating, atropisomers may have enough energy to surpass the rotational energy barrier and racemize. The thermal stability of five atropisomers was studied using chiral chromatography by following the change in enantiomeric excess ratio at different temperatures. The first order racemization reaction rate was obtained at a given temperature as the slope of the change in enantiomeric excess ratio versus time. For each atropisomer, the racemization rates at different temperatures led to the value of the rotational energy barrier for racemization, ΔG^‡, and to the racemization half lifetime, t_1/2, indicating the atropisomer thermal stability. Binaphthol started to racemize significantly at temperature of 190 °C and above while binaphthyldiamine was much more stable showing little or very minor racemization up to 210 °C. A chloro-substituted phenylamino-naphthol was very sensitive to thermal racemization starting at a low 40 °C.

Candida antarctica lipase proved to be a particularly efficient lipase for the resolution of racemic 2-arylcyclohexyl acetate in hydrolysis reaction with Na₂CO₃ in an organic medium. The (1R,2S)-trans-2-arylcyclohexanols 2a–2d were obtained with high ee values (up to >99%) and the selectivity reached E > 200. The influence of the enol ester and the solvent on (±)-trans-2-arylcyclohexanol in the CAL-B catalyzed acylation was also studied and compared with the deacylation. The CAL-B exhibits a better affinity for the alkaline hydrolysis reaction compared with acylation with the enol esters in the same organic solvents. The best conditions were applied to resolve a stereoisomeric mixture cis/trans-2-phenyl-1-cyclohexanol and its corresponding acetate by acylation and deacylation. The obtained results show a highly enantio- and diastereoselectivity of the CAL-B during the acylation and the deacylation in favor of the trans-(R)-enantiomer product. The resolution of a mixture of cis/trans-2-arylcyclohexanols was an easy, convenient approach to provide only one stereoisomer of a mixture of four with high enantiomeric excess.

A stereoselective inverse electron demand oxo-Diels-Alder reaction involving electron poor dienes (γ-aryl-β,γ-unsaturated-α-keto ester) and electron rich dienophiles has been studied. These cycloaddition reactions are extremely useful for the construction of O-, N-, S-centered heterocyclic compounds, which are routinely used in both synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry. The [4+2] hetero cycloaddition reactions involving various aldehydes and β,γ-unsaturated-α-keto esters were carried out in which three different types of substituted proline catalysts were examined. For these reactions, high selectivities (enantiomeric excess 93–98%) were obtained using catalyst 3. Due to the bulkiness of catalyst 3, compared to the other catalysts tested, it is more efficient at catalyzing these type reactions.

The anti-selective aldol reaction of chiral alcohol-substituted γ-benzyloxy vinylogous urethanes is described. The use of (1S,2R,4R)-1-(hydroxydiphenylmethyl)-7,7-dimethylbicyclo[2,2,1]-heptan-2-ol as a chiral auxiliary in the aldol reaction of a vinylogous urethane enolate was found to provide anti-products in good yields with moderate to excellent enantioselectivities. The major anti-vinylogous urethane lactones were transformed into 3-benzyloxyl-4-hydroxylalkan-2-ones in good yields.

Cystoseira (Sargassaceae) is a genus of marine brown algae composed of about 40 species, which is distributed along the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. The biological potential of the Cystoseira genus has been investigated and several activities have been reported. Chemically, this genus contains a wide variety of secondary metabolites, such as terpenoids, steroids, phlorotannins and phenolic compounds. Additionally, other chemical components as, for instance, carbohydrates, triacylglycerols/fatty acids, pigments as well as vitamins have been identified in the studied species. Some of the isolated compounds were associated with the reported pharmacological properties, as for example antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, cytotoxicity, anticancer, cholinesterase inhibition, anti-diabetic, activities but also antibacterial, antifungal and anti-parasitic activities. In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the compounds isolated and identified after 1995 from the different species of Cystoseira, compiling more than 200 compounds isolated, together with their therapeutic potential.

Leukotriene B₄ 1 was prepared from two chiral synthons 8 and 14. The chiral secondary alcohols of 8 and 14 were constructed by BINOL/Ti(OiPr)₄ catalyzed enantioselective alkynylzinc addition to aldehydes.

Chiral binaphthyl diamidophosphites derived from deoxycholic acid were synthesized and used as ligands for the preparation of mononuclear Pd(II) complexes, which were employed as catalysts in the asymmetric Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of arylboronic acids with aryl bromides. Among the different reaction parameters, the substrate concentration emerged as being crucial for the outcome of the reaction: the reaction was faster in a concentrated reaction mixture, and could be performed at 0 °C, where the reaction promoted by the Pd-complexes was more enantioselective affording cross-coupling products with ee up to 70%.

Gas antisolvent precipitation is a particle formation technique, when typically pressurized carbon dioxide is added to an organic solution resulting in immediate and high oversaturation and precipitation of fine particles. Provided that a reasonable share of the originally dissolved material remains dissolved in the carbon dioxide – organic mixed solvent, these components can be extracted during the washing phase. This method is called gas antisolvent fractionation. Gas antisolvent fractionation has been applied for the first time to enantiomeric enrichment of non-racemic mixtures, and demonstrated on the example of chlorinated mandelic acid derivatives. Due to self-disproportionation of enantiomers, the precipitated solid and the extracted fractions have different enantiomeric excesses if gas antisolvent fractionation is carried out on a non-racemic mixture. However, there is a limit in the enantiomeric excess (ee) that can be achieved correlating strongly with the atmospheric melting eutectic behavior of the compounds. Thus, if initial enantiomeric mixtures have a higher than eutectic ee, a >99% ee can be reached in the crystalline product. The strong correlation between the high-pressure experiments and the atmospheric melting eutectic behavior suggest that despite the very large oversaturation during the antisolvent precipitation, the composition of the products (i.e., the crystalline and the extracted phases) is thermodynamically determined. Technological advantages such as short operational time, or the possibility of controlling the crystal morphology suggest that the development of an efficient technique of enantiomeric purification is possible based on gas antisolvent fractionation.

A chiral BINOL dimer, (R,R)-3′,3″-BiBINOL, which possesses both rigid (atropos) and dynamic (tropos) axial chiralities, was found to work as an effective NMR chiral solvating reagent for the determination of the enantiomeric purities of various chiral sulfoxides. The unique chiral discrimination mechanism was also revealed by using DFT calculations and X-ray crystallographic analysis.