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Gangavara L Tejashree1, Argha Bhattacharjee1, Irishi N N Namboothiri1
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400 076, India.
Abstract:
Efficient access to enantiopure polycyclic cage compounds is a challenging but attractive objective. The 1,3-bishomocubane (BHC) skeleton, in particular, is distinguished by its chirality, exceptional configurational and conformational rigidity, and unique 3D structure. Herein, we report the enantioselective synthesis of all possible isomers of a bishomocubyl amino alcohol. This was accomplished by using Ellman's sulfinamide as a chiral resolving agent (CRA) and tuning the reaction conditions. Thus, treatment of a racemic bishomocubyl ketoalcohol, possessing eight fixed chiral centers, with both enantiomers of Ellmann sulfinamide led to all possible (eight) isomers of sulfinamide, which on hydrolysis afforded four stereoisomers (two pairs of enantiomers) of enantiomerically pure amino alcohols. Possible application of such enantiopure functionalized cage compounds as chiral ligands and catalysts has also been demonstrated.
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