Speeding up Viedma Deracemization through Water-catalyzed and Reactant Self-catalyzed Racemization.

ABSTRACT: Viedma deracemization is based on solution phase racemization, dissolution of racemic or scalemic conglomerates and crystal growth through autocatalytic cluster formation. With rate limiting racemization, its acceleration by appropriate catalysts may result in speeding up deracemization. A conglomerate-forming chiral compound may principally racemize directly, or via reverse of its formation reaction. For a hydrazine derivative, we investigated available racemization pathways in presence of pyrrolidine or thiourea amine as base catalysts: via Mannich or aza-Michael reaction steps and their reverse, or by enolization. Racemization by enolization was computationally found to dominate, both under water-free conditions and in presence of water, involving a multitude of different pathways. Fast

SUBMITTER: Tortora C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7497082 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature