Geometric enantiomerism in cyclic compounds: chiral dibrominated 1,3-dioxanes
Crina Cismaş1, Nicolas Vanthuyne, Hélène Rispaud
1Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Center of Supramolecular Organic and Organometallic Chemistry, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Abstract:
The first geometric enantiomers in the cyclic compounds series are reported. The investigated compounds are 2,2-disubstituted-5-methyl-1,3-dioxane derivatives in which the substituents at position 2 bear chiral centers with identical substituents but with opposite configurations. The structure of the unlike isomers was determined from the solid state molecular structure of the compounds obtained by single crystal X-ray diffractometry and the enantiomers of these diastereoisomers were observed by chiral column HPLC base-line separation. The investigated compounds were obtained by a diastereoselective bromination reaction of the corresponding 2,2-dialkyl and 2,2-dibenzyl-5-methyl-1,3-dioxanes.
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