Use of Chiral Ionic Liquids as Solvents for the Enantioselective Photoisomerization of Dibenzobicyclo[2.2.2]octatrienes
Author(s) -
Jie Ding,
Vasumathi Desikan,
Xinxin Han,
Tom Ling Xiao,
Rongfang Ding,
William S. Jenks,
Daniel W. Armstrong
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
organic letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.94
H-Index - 239
eISSN - 1523-7060
pISSN - 1523-7052
DOI - 10.1021/ol047599i
Subject(s) - chemistry , photoisomerization , ionic liquid , isomerization , enantioselective synthesis , deprotonation , asymmetric induction , enantiomer , ionic bonding , photochemistry , ion , organic chemistry , catalysis
[Reaction: see text] Six chiral ionic liquids were prepared and evaluated as "chiral induction solvents" in which two different dibenzobicyclo[2.2.2]octatrienes were photoisomerized to chiral products. Enantiomeric excesses from 3 to 12% were obtained from the photochemical di-pi-methane rearrangement. Results indicate that the chiral induction derives from an ion pairing interaction of the deprotonated diacids with the ionic liquid cation. This is the first report on chiral induction via a chiral IL for an irreversible, unimolecular photochemical isomerization.
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