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Codruţa Frîncul1, Alina Ghinet1,2,3, Dalila Belei1
1Faculty of Chemistry, 'Alexandru Ioan Cuza' University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania.
Abstract:
Chirality plays a crucial role in the pharmacological activity of triazoles, a key scaffold in antifungal agents and various therapeutic applications. This study focuses on optimizing the enantiomeric resolution of chiral triazoles using supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and 10 different columns, either immobilized or coated, chlorinated or nonchlorinated, cellulose or amylose-based chiral stationary phases (CSPs). Four novel triazoles and two marketed ones (tebuconazole and hexaconazole) were separated to determine optimal resolution conditions. The best resolution was achieved using chlorinated amylose-based CSPs across the tested compounds. Optical rotation and X-ray crystallography were employed to determine the absolute configurations of the purified enantiomers.
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