

For fluoro-substituted phenylalanine the resolution was increased in order of 4-, 3- and 2-substituted one. Bromo- or chloro-substituted phenylalanine tended to show higher resolution than fluoro-substituted one. The resolution of 4-bromophenylalanine was 2.37 at pH 4.5, however, this value was increased to 3.35 at pH 3.0. The enantiomeric resolution was increased when the pH of the mobile phase decreased or hydrogen of amino acid was substituted with halogen. The enantioseparation performance was discussed and structure-chiral separation relationship were tried to be explained. (-)-18-Crown-6-2,3,11,12-tetracarboxylic acid bonded on the silica was used as the chiral stationary phase and methanol/Tris-citric acid (20 mM, pH 3.0-4.5) (20:80, v/v) was used as mobile phase. A second motivation for writing this review is to make a clear statement about the state of the art, the tools we have at our disposal, and what is still missing to fully understand the mechanisms underlying enantioselective recognition.Ĭapillary electrochromatography was employed for enantioseparation of α-amino acids and their derivatives.

A specific focus is devoted to enantioselection in chromatography and electromigration techniques because of their unique feature as “multistep” processes. With the primary aim of discussing this topic in an integrated way, a comprehensive pool of rational and systematic multidisciplinary information is provided, which concerns the fundamentals of chirality, a description of noncovalent interactions, and their implications in enantioselective processes occurring in different contexts. This review has been conceived with theĪwareness that a modern attitude toward molecular chirality and its consequences needs to be founded on multidisciplinary approaches to disclose the molecular basis of essential enantioselective phenomena in the domain of chemical, physical, and life sciences. Physical, biological, and other natural sciences. Thread of a fascinating story which goes across several disciplines of medical, chemical, Thus, noncovalent interactions represent the narrative Noncovalent interactivity between chiral molecules underlies enantioselective recognition as a fundamental phenomenon It is not a coincidence that both chirality and noncovalent interactions are ubiquitous in nature and synthetic molecular systems. The conformational landscape of 18c6H4 is found to be governed by bowl-like structures sustained by various types of H-bonding arrangements of the carboxylic side chains with each other and with the central crown ether ring. The experimental results are combined with a computational conformational survey and structure optimization at the B3LYP/6-311++G(2d,2p) level. The investigation covers a broad range of wavenumbers (800–4000 cm−1) and focuses particularly on the O–H, C–H, CO and C–O stretching modes and on the C–O–H bending mode, which yield the most intense IR and VCD signals. Infrared and vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopies are employed to characterize the vibrational modes of the 18c6H4 molecule in a low polarity solvent (CDCl3). Herein we report a study of the most stable conformers of the chiral crown ether (all-S)-(18-crown-6)-2,3,11,12-tetracarboxylic acid (18c6H4), which constitutes a key building block for materials in asymmetric catalysis and enantiomeric separation. The results indicate that this new type of DGT has the potential to improve the accuracy of predictions of the K status of soils, although more tests using a wider range of plant species and soils are necessary. Prediction of plant K concentrations with DGT were similar to those with ammonium acetate extractions over a range of typical agricultural soils with sandy and sandy loam textures. It proved suitable for the measurement of K under conditions similar to those usually found in soil if a 2-h deployment time was used and the labile K concentration was limited to 400 mu M. The DGT device contained a binding layer based on Amberlite IRP-69 cation exchange resin. We set out to develop a DGT device suitable for the measurement of K in soil and test its ability to predict plant available K. Up until now, however, the DGT devices available have not been suitable for measuring K. Diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT), which determines the diffusive supply of elements, has been shown to accurately measure plant available elements in several cases. However, correlation between extracted K and plant uptake is often poor, especially over a range of different soil textures.

Ammonium acetate extraction is often used to predict the potassium status of soils. Potassium is an essential plant nutrient often limiting plant productivity.
