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Formen JSSK, Wolf C. Optical Enantiodifferentiation of Chiral Nitriles. Org Lett 2024. [PMID: 39229874 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c02758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/05/2024]
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Chiroptical sensing of nitriles is achieved with excellent functional group tolerance by hydrozirconation and subsequent transmetalation of the corresponding iminate to a chromophoric palladium complex. A one-pot workflow that uses the Schwartz reagent and [(η3-1-tert-butylindenyl)(μ-Cl)Pd]2 as sensor generates a palladium complex displaying red-shifted CD inductions and characteristic UV changes. These chiroptical responses are accurately correlated to the enantiomeric ratio and total concentration of the original nitrile.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jeffrey S S K Formen
- Chemistry Department, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. 20057, United States
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- Chemistry Department, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. 20057, United States
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Nelson E, Bertke JA, Thanzeel FY, Wolf C. Organometallic Chirality Sensing via "Click"-Like η 6-Arene Coordination with an Achiral Cp*Ru(II) Piano Stool Complex. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202404594. [PMID: 38634562 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202404594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2024] [Revised: 04/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024]
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Piano stool complexes have been studied over many years and found widespread applications in organic synthesis, catalysis, materials and drug development. We now report the first examples of quantitative chiroptical molecular recognition of chiral compounds through click-like η6-arene coordination with readily available half sandwich complexes. This conceptually new approach to chirality sensing is based on irreversible acetonitrile displacement of [Cp*Ru(CH3CN)3]PF6 by an aromatic target molecule, a process that is fast and complete within a few minutes at room temperature. The metal coordination coincides with characteristic circular dichroism inductions that can be easily correlated to the absolute configuration and enantiomeric ratio of the bound molecule. A relay assay that decouples the determination of the enantiomeric composition and of the total sample amount by a practical CD/UV measurement protocol was developed and successfully tested. The introduction of piano stool complexes to the chiroptical sensing realm is mechanistically unique and extends the scope of currently known methods with small-molecule probes that require the presence of amino, alcohol, carboxylate or other privileged functional groups for binding of the target compound. A broad application range including pharmaceutically relevant multifunctional molecules and the use in chromatography-free asymmetric reaction analysis are also demonstrated.
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- Eryn Nelson
- Chemistry Department, Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC-20057
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- Chemistry Department, Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC-20057
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- Chemistry Department, Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC-20057
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- Chemistry Department, Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC-20057
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Formen JSSK, Howard JR, Anslyn EV, Wolf C. Circular Dichroism Sensing: Strategies and Applications. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202400767. [PMID: 38421186 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202400767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2024] [Revised: 02/23/2024] [Accepted: 02/28/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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The analysis of the absolute configuration, enantiomeric composition, and concentration of chiral compounds are frequently encountered tasks across the chemical and health sciences. Chiroptical sensing methods can streamline this work and allow high-throughput screening with remarkable reduction of operational time and cost. During the last few years, significant methodological advances with innovative chirality sensing systems, the use of computer-generated calibration curves, machine learning assistance, and chemometric data processing, to name a few, have emerged and are now matched with commercially available multi-well plate CD readers. These developments have reframed the chirality sensing space and provide new opportunities that are of interest to a large group of chemists. This review will discuss chirality sensing strategies and applications with representative small-molecule CD sensors. Emphasis will be given to important milestones and recent advances that accelerate chiral compound analysis by outperforming traditional methods, conquer new directions, and pioneering efforts that lie at the forefront of chiroptical high-throughput screening developments. The goal is to provide the reader with a thorough understanding of the current state and a perspective of future directions of this rapidly emerging field.
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- Chemistry Department, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, USA
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- Chemistry Department, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, USA
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- Chemistry Department, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
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Essien NB, Galvácsi A, Kállay C, Al-Hilaly Y, González-Méndez R, Akien GR, Tizzard GJ, Coles SJ, Besora M, Kostakis GE. Fluorine-based Zn salan complexes. Dalton Trans 2023; 52:4044-4057. [PMID: 36880418 DOI: 10.1039/d2dt04082d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/08/2023]
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We synthesised and characterised the racemic and chiral versions of two Zn salan fluorine-based complexes from commercially available materials. The complexes are susceptible to absorbing H2O from the atmosphere. In solution (DMSO-H2O) and at the millimolar level, experimental and theoretical studies identify that these complexes exist in a dimeric-monomeric equilibrium. We also investigated their ability to sense amines via19F NMR. In CDCl3 or d6-DMSO, strongly coordinating molecules (H2O or DMSO) are the limiting factor in using these easy-to-make complexes as chemosensory platforms since their exchange with analytes requires an extreme excess of the latter.
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- Nsikak B Essien
- Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK.
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.,Chemistry Department, College of Science, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK
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- UK National Crystallography Service, Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton SO1 71BJ, UK
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- UK National Crystallography Service, Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton SO1 71BJ, UK
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- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, C/Marcel lí Domingo, 1, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK.
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Kariapper FS, Thanzeel FY, Zandi LS, Wolf C. Selective chiroptical sensing of D/L-cysteine. Org Biomol Chem 2022; 20:3056-3060. [PMID: 35343543 DOI: 10.1039/d2ob00198e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A chromophoric bifunctional probe design that allows selective chiroptical sensing of cysteine in aqueous solution is introduced. The common need for chiral HPLC separation is eliminated which expedites and simplifies the sample analysis while reducing solvent waste. Screening of the reaction between six phenacyl bromides and the enantiomers of cysteine showed that cyclization to an unsaturated thiomorpholine scaffold coincides with characteristic UV and CD effects, in particular when the reagent carries a proximate auxochromic nitro group. The UV changes and CD inductions were successfully used for determination of the absolute configuration, enantiomeric composition and total concentration of 18 test samples. This assay is highly selective for free cysteine while other amino acids, cysteine derived small peptides and biothiols do not interfere with the chiroptical signal generation.
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- F Safia Kariapper
- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
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Krämer J, Kang R, Grimm LM, De Cola L, Picchetti P, Biedermann F. Molecular Probes, Chemosensors, and Nanosensors for Optical Detection of Biorelevant Molecules and Ions in Aqueous Media and Biofluids. Chem Rev 2022; 122:3459-3636. [PMID: 34995461 PMCID: PMC8832467 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 61.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Synthetic molecular probes, chemosensors, and nanosensors used in combination with innovative assay protocols hold great potential for the development of robust, low-cost, and fast-responding sensors that are applicable in biofluids (urine, blood, and saliva). Particularly, the development of sensors for metabolites, neurotransmitters, drugs, and inorganic ions is highly desirable due to a lack of suitable biosensors. In addition, the monitoring and analysis of metabolic and signaling networks in cells and organisms by optical probes and chemosensors is becoming increasingly important in molecular biology and medicine. Thus, new perspectives for personalized diagnostics, theranostics, and biochemical/medical research will be unlocked when standing limitations of artificial binders and receptors are overcome. In this review, we survey synthetic sensing systems that have promising (future) application potential for the detection of small molecules, cations, and anions in aqueous media and biofluids. Special attention was given to sensing systems that provide a readily measurable optical signal through dynamic covalent chemistry, supramolecular host-guest interactions, or nanoparticles featuring plasmonic effects. This review shall also enable the reader to evaluate the current performance of molecular probes, chemosensors, and nanosensors in terms of sensitivity and selectivity with respect to practical requirement, and thereby inspiring new ideas for the development of further advanced systems.
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- Joana Krämer
- Institute
of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute
of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute
of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute
of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- Dipartimento
DISFARM, University of Milano, via Camillo Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Department
of Molecular Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Instituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, IRCCS, 20156 Milano, Italy
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- Institute
of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute
of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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Yu Y, Yang G, Zhang S, Liu M, Xu S, Wang C, Li M, Zhang SXA. Wide-Range and Highly Sensitive Chiral Sensing by Discrete 2D Chirality Transfer on Confined Surfaces of Au(I)-Thiolate Nanosheets. ACS NANO 2022; 16:148-159. [PMID: 34898188 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c04693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Circular dichroism (CD) chiral sensing is very promising to meet the ever-increasing demands for high-throughput chiral analysis in asymmetric synthesis. However, it is still very challenging to sensitively quantify the composition of enantiomers in a wide concentration range because the existing sensing systems show either linear CD response resultant from stoichiometric chiral transfer or nonlinear CD response resultant from amplified chiral transfer and thus have the drawbacks of low sensitivity and narrow quantification range, respectively. Herein, we propose a sensing system of two-dimensional (2D) Au(I)-thiolate nanosheets. The disordered interligand interactions on the confined surfaces of nanosheets enable the formation of discrete amplified chiral domains around the adsorbed chiral analytes, resulting in a linearly amplified chiral transfer behavior, which provides a solution for highly sensitive and wide-range quantification of enantiomer compositions. Taking (1R, 2R)-(-)- and (1S, 2S)-(+)-1,2-diamino cyclohexanes as example analytes, the concentration and full-range enantiomeric excess (ee) values have been quickly determined by adsorbing them on the surface of Au(I)-MPA (MPA: 3-mercaptopropionic acid) nanosheets in the concentration range of 1.0 × 10-6 to 4.0 × 10-5 M. By engineering the surface functional groups, Au(I)-thiolate nanosheets can be extended to sense other types of analytes, and several polyols with multiple chiral centers have been sensed by boronic acid functionalized nanosheets at the 10-7 M level. The high performances, good extendibility, and one-pot high-yield aqueous synthesis ensure these Au(I)-thiolate nanosheets can be developed as a practical and powerful chiral sensing platform.
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- Yang Yu
- State Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 130012 Changchun, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 130012 Changchun, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 130012 Changchun, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 130012 Changchun, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 130012 Changchun, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 130012 Changchun, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 130012 Changchun, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 130012 Changchun, People's Republic of China
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Hassan DS, Wolf C. Optical deciphering of multinary chiral compound mixtures through organic reaction based chemometric chirality sensing. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6451. [PMID: 34750404 PMCID: PMC8575934 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26874-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The advances of high-throughput experimentation technology and chemometrics have revolutionized the pace of scientific progress and enabled previously inconceivable discoveries, in particular when used in tandem. Here we show that the combination of chirality sensing based on small-molecule optical probes that bind to amines and amino alcohols via dynamic covalent or click chemistries and powerful chemometric tools that achieve orthogonal data fusion and spectral deconvolution yields a streamlined multi-modal sensing protocol that allows analysis of the absolute configuration, enantiomeric composition and concentration of structurally analogous—and therefore particularly challenging—chiral target compounds without laborious and time-consuming physical separation. The practicality, high accuracy, and speed of this approach are demonstrated with complicated quaternary and octonary mixtures of varying chemical and chiral compositions. The advantages over chiral chromatography and other classical methods include operational simplicity, increased speed, reduced waste production, low cost, and compatibility with multiwell plate technology if high-throughput analysis of hundreds of samples is desired. The stereoselective analysis of mixtures of chiral compounds typically requires time-consuming chromatography. Here, the authors combine reaction based chiroptical sensing and chemometric tools to directly determine the absolute configuration, enantiomeric composition and concentration of convoluted samples without physical separation.
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- Diandra S Hassan
- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20057, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20057, USA.
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A novel screening protocol was developed using a combination of a fluorescent indicator displacement assay and a circular dichroism (CD) active Fe(II) complex to determine concentration and enantiomeric excess (ee) of α-chiral amines, respectively. The analyte concentration is quantified with a pre-formed non-fluorescent imine, where transimination with the chiral amine results in displacement of the fluorophore 2-naphthylamine. After discerning the concentration of amine via fluorescence in a wellplate reader, the analyte is then incorporated into a three-component octahedral Fe(II) assembly for ee determination using an EKKO CD plate-reader. With these two assays, both the ee and yield of asymmetric transformations of 192 samples could be determined with acceptable errors in under fifteen minutes (not counting the preparation time). This combined speed and accuracy provides an attractive solution to overcoming analytical bottlenecks when creating α-chiral amines.
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