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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-7-16
pubmed:abstractText
We introduce a novel, HPLC-based method for facile determination of the absolute configuration of alpha-chiral amines. Our method is easily applied to a variety of compounds, including amino acid derivatives. The method involves initial derivatization of the chiral amine analyte with the chiral derivatizing reagent, N-succinimidyl alpha-methoxyphenylacetate (SMPA), to produce the corresponding diastereomeric adducts. Inspection of a particular rotomer of the SMPA adduct and application of simple rules correlates absolute configuration and HPLC elution order. A key aspect of our method is that it can be used to determine absolute configuration without using enantiomeric standards of the amine analytes. Furthermore, it is of utmost significance that our method can also be used to determine absolute configuration even when only one analyte enantiomer of unknown absolute configuration is present, as is often the case for enzymatic products, naturally derived compounds, or enantiomerically enriched compounds prepared via chiral syntheses. We have observed strict adherence between predicted and observed absolute configuration for a wide variety of alpha-chiral amines. The chromatographic method we present in this paper is very practical and has several important advantages over NMR-based approaches which have been previously developed. For example, microgram quantities of an analyte in a complex enzymatic mixture can be directly analyzed by our HPLC-based method while the impurities often preclude definitive proton assignments in the NMR approach.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0003-2700
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
65
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1456-61
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
HPLC-based method for determination of absolute configuration of alpha-chiral amines.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332-0400.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.