<p> Chiral 1-arylprop-2-en-1-ols and 1-arylprop-2-yn-1-ols are useful building blocks for modern pharmaceuticals. Previous work has found that enzyme catalysis is a potential new enantioselective synthetic route to the former. We found that <i>Candida antarctica</i> lipase is also an effective catalyst for kinetic resolution of various substituted 1 arylpropargylic acetates and haloacetates, affording the respective (<i>R</i>) -1 arylproargylic alcohols with high enantioselectivity (99-100% <i>ee</i>). By varying the substituents on both sides of the ester bond, we discovered that the deacylation of lipase is likely the rate-determining step for our catalytic system. A greater challenge is designing a dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) system for such substrates, which combines a resolving catalyst (lipase) with a racemizing catalyst, and can potentially lead to quantitative conversion of a racemic substrate into an enantiopure product. We studied the efficacy of various transition-metal complexes for substrate racemization and will report our results for In and Cu compounds. </p><p> While kinetic resolution has been performed on the 1-arylallylic acetates with excellent yield and enantioselectivity and the DKR regime has been designed, the resulting site-isolation system has required further testing and fine tuning. We have herein investigated the utilization of macroscale site-isolation as well as various factors including solvent, and acyl donor effects in order to optimize conditions of the system.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:1538847 |
| Date | 26 July 2013 |
| Creators | Nelson, Keegan Gregory |
| Publisher | University of Missouri - Kansas City |
| Source Sets | ProQuest.com |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
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