Synthesis and enantiomeric recognition studies of optically active acridone bis(urea) and bis(thiourea) derivatives

Recognition of Chiral Carboxylates by Synthetic Receptors

Recognition of anionic species plays a fundamental role in many essential chemical, biological, and environmental processes. Numerous monographs and review papers on molecular recognition of anions by synthetic receptors reflect the continuing and growing interest in this area of supramolecular chemistry. However, despite the enormous progress made over the last 20 years in the design of these molecules, the design of receptors for chiral anions is much less developed. Chiral recognition is one of the most subtle types of selectivity, and it requires very precise spatial organization of the receptor framework. At the same time, this phenomenon commonly occurs in many processes present in nature, often being their fundamental step. For these reasons, research directed toward understanding the chiral anion recognition phenomenon may lead to the identification of structural patterns that enable increasingly efficient receptor design. In this review, we present the recent progress made in the area of synthetic receptors for biologically relevant chiral carboxylates.

Differentiation of enantiomeric anions by NMR spectroscopy with chiral bisurea receptors

Enantiomeric ¹H NMR signals of chiral anions are separated by forming 1 : 1 and 1 : 2 host–guest complexes with chiral bisurea.

Enantioselective recognition of carboxylic acids by novel fluorescent triazine-based thiazoles

Hydrogen bonding and π-π interactions take special part in the enantioselectivity task. In this regard, because of having both hydrogen acceptor and hydrogen donor groups, melamine derivatives become more of an issue for enantioselectivity. In the light of such information, triazine-based chiral, fluorescence active novel thiazole derivatives L1 and L2 were designed and synthesized from (S)-(-)-2-amino-1-butanol and (1S,2R)-(+)-2-amino-1,2-diphenylethanol. The structural establishment of these compounds was made by spectroscopic methods such as FTIR, ¹ H, and ¹³ C NMR. While the solution of these compounds in DMSO did not show any fluorescence emission, it was observed that the emission increased 44-fold for L1 and 55-fold for L2 in 95% water, similar to the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characterized compounds. In this regard, enantioselective capabilities of these compounds against carboxylic acids were tested, and in experiments carried out at a ratio of 40/60 DMSO/H₂ O, it was determined that R-2ClMA increased the fluorescence emission of L1 chiral receptor by 2.59 times compared to S-isomer.