Di(1-naphthyl) methanol ester of carboxylic acids for absolute stereochemical determination

May 22, 2018

Title

Di(1-naphthyl) methanol ester of carboxylic acids for absolute stereochemical determination

Author

Jun Zhang, Wei Sheng, Hadi Gholami, Tatsuo Nehira, Babak Borhan

Year

2018

Journal

Chirality

Abstract

The absolute stereochemistry of chiral carboxylic acids is determined as a di(1-naphthyl)methanol ester derivative. Computational scoring of conformations favoring either P or M helicity of the naphthyl groups, capable of exciton-coupled circular dichroic coupling, leads to a predicted stereochemistry for the derivatized carboxylic acids.

Instrument

J-810

Keywords

Circular dichroism, Absolute configuration