Monitoring Reaction Intermediates to Predict Enantioselectivity Using Mass Spectrometry **

Abstract: Enantioselective reactions are at the core of chemical synthesis. Their development mostly relies on prior knowledge, laborious product analysis and post‐rationalization by theoretical methods. Here, we introduce a simple and fast method to determine enantioselectivities based on mass spectrometry. The method is based on ion mobility separation of diastereomeric intermediates, formed from a chiral catalyst and prochiral reactants, and delayed reactant labeling experiments to link the mass spectra with the reaction kinetics in solution. The data provide rate constants along the reaction paths for the individual diastereomeric intermediates, revealing the origins of enantioselectivity. Using the derived kinetics, the enantioselectivity of the overall reaction can be predicted. Hence, this method can offer a rapid discovery and optimization of enantioselective reactions in the future. We illustrate the method for the addition of cyclopentadiene (CP) to an α,β‐unsaturated aldehyde catalyzed by a diarylprolinol silyl ether.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Monitoring Reaction Intermediates to Predict Enantioselectivity Using Mass Spectrometry ** ; day:03 ; month:06 ; year:2022 ; extent:1
Angewandte Chemie / International edition. International edition ; (03.06.2022) (gesamt 1)

Creator
Hilgers, Roelant
Yong Teng, Sin
Briš, Anamarija
Pereverzev, Aleksandr Y.
White, Paul
Jansen, Jeroen J.
Roithova, Jana

DOI
10.1002/anie.202205720
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022060315415286184656
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Hilgers, Roelant
  • Yong Teng, Sin
  • Briš, Anamarija
  • Pereverzev, Aleksandr Y.
  • White, Paul
  • Jansen, Jeroen J.
  • Roithova, Jana

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