Natural Abundance Isotopic Chirality in the Reagents of the Soai Reaction

Autor: Béla Barabás, Róbert Kurdi, Gyula Pályi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Symmetry, Vol 8, Iss 1, p 2 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2073-8994
DOI: 10.3390/sym8010002
Popis: Isotopic chirality influences sensitively the enantiomeric outcome of the Soai asymmetric autocatalysis. Therefore magnitude and eventual effects of isotopic chirality caused by natural abundance isotopic substitution (H, C, O, Zn) in the reagents of the Soai reaction were analyzed by combinatorics and probability calculations. Expectable enantiomeric excesses were calculated by the Pars–Mills equation. It has been found that the chiral isotopic species formed by substitution in the otherwise achiral reagents provide enantiomeric excess (e.e.) levels that are higher than the sensitivity threshold of the Soai autocatalysis towards chiral induction. Consequently, possible chiral induction exerted by these e.e. values should be taken into account in considerations regarding the molecular events and the mechanism of the chiral induction in the Soai reaction.
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