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Shunpei Yoshimori1, Ren-Hua Jin1
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan.
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In this work, we report a one-pot approach that combines crystal ripening with the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction. We investigated the reaction between 2-methoxyphenyl bromide and 2-methoxyphenylboronic acid, catalyzed by a series of Pd-loaded chiral optical (D- or L-) and racemic (DL-) silica/polyethyleneimine (PEI) systems, which produced crystalline 2,2'-dimethoxybiphenyl (DMB). The silica used as a catalyst was prepared using our previously established method, in which chirality was imparted to the silica through catalytic templates composed of polyethyleneimine (PEI) and tartaric acid. Both enantiopure (D- or L-; 100% ee) and racemic (DL-; 0% ee) tartaric acid-mediated silica, after tartaric acid removal and palladium (Pd) loading, exhibited similar catalytic activities, leading to the quantitative precipitation of 2,2'-dimethoxybiphenyl in a water/ethanol (1:1 by volume) medium. Interestingly, the 2,2'-dimethoxybiphenyl crystals formed and ripened in the presence of Pd-loaded chiral D- and L-silica/PEI exhibited octahedral morphology and displayed remarkable chiroptical activity with a mirror-image relationship. This represents a novel example of using chiral Pd-loaded silica to synthesize axially chiral biphenyl in crystalline form.
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