A chiral tagging strategy for determining absolute configuration and enantiomeric excess by molecular rotational spectroscopy

Pate, Brooks

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A chiral tagging strategy for determining absolute configuration and enantiomeric excess by molecular rotational spectroscopy

Author(s)

Pate, Brooks

Contributor(s)

• West, Channing
• Xu, Yunjie
• Thomas, Javix
• Patterson, David
• Caminati, Walther
• Evangelisti, Luca

Issue Date

2017-06-22

Keyword(s)

Chirality-sensitive spectroscopy

Abstract

The introduction of three wave mixing rotational spectroscopy by Patterson, Schnell, and Doyle [1,2] has expanded applications of molecular rotational spectroscopy into the field of chiral analysis. Chiral analysis of a molecule is the quantitative measurement of the relative abundances of all stereoisomers of the molecule and these include both diastereomers (with distinct molecular rotational spectra) and enantiomers (with equivalent molecular rotational spectra). This work adapts a common strategy in chiral analysis of enantiomers to molecular rotational spectroscopy. A “chiral tag” is attached to the molecule of interest by making a weakly bound complex in a pulsed jet expansion. When this tag molecule is enantiopure, it will create diastereomeric complexes with the two enantiomers of the molecule being analyzed and these can be differentiated by molecule rotational spectroscopy. Identifying the structure of this complex, with knowledge of the absolute configuration of the tag, establishes the absolute configuration of the molecule of interest. Furthermore, the diastereomer complex spectra can be used to determine the enantiomeric excess of the sample. The ability to perform chiral analysis will be illustrated by a study of solketal using propylene oxide as the tag. The possibility of using current methods of quantum chemistry to assign a specific structure to the chiral tag complex will be discussed. Finally, chiral tag rotational spectroscopy offers a “gold standard” method for determining the absolute configuration of the molecule through determination of the substitution structure of the complex. When this measurement is possible, rotational spectroscopy can deliver a quantitative three dimensional structure of the molecule with correct stereochemistry as the analysis output._x000d_ _x000d_ [1] David Patterson, Melanie Schnell, John M. Doyle, Nature 497, 475 (2013)._x000d_ [2] David Patterson, John M. Doyle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023008 (2013). _x000d_

Publisher

International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

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text

Language

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97112

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15278/isms.2017.RG03

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Copyright 2017 Brooks Pate

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