The Chromatography Forum

of Delaware Valley

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Abstract:

Allenes are cumulenes with three contiguous carbons linked together through double bonds. 1,3- disubstituted allenes are not superimposable on their mirror image; as a consequence they are chiral. Chiral allenes are increasingly important in organic synthesis due to their interesting reactivity. Because of their applications in the field of asymmetric catalysis and in the pharmaceutical industry their optical purity is always a parameter which needs to be determined. In this talk, we report the enantiomeric separation of hexa-3,4-diene-3-ylbenzene, an aromatic allene, on a cellulose carbamate (Chiralcel OD- 3) stationary phase, using heptane as the mobile phase. Spectroscopic studies using infrared (IR) and vibrational circular dichroism revealed that, in the presence of heptane, the stationary phase undergoes a conformational change due to intermolecular H-bonding between the C=O and N-H of the neighboring polymer chains. Van’t Hoff plots for the retention factor, k, showed that the retention of the two enantiomers is dominated by the enthalpy, while the plot for the selectivity, α, is entropy driven. This suggests that the enantioselectivity is a result of inclusion of the enantiomers in the cavities of the chiral stationary phase. VCD spectra, along with density functional theory calculation (DFT) of the interaction between each enantiomer and the chiral stationary phase, supported the chromatographic elution order findings.