Issue 46, 2009

Chiral layered molecular spaces with amino acids

Abstract

Novel chiral layered molecular space L-(+)-leucine amidepropylamidephenylsilica (L-(+)-Leu-APAPhS) and D-(−)-alanine amidepropylamidephenylsilica (D-(−)-Ala-APAPhS) were synthesized through grafting L-leucine tert-butyl ester (L-Leu-OtBu) and D-alanine tert-butyl ester (D-Ala-OtBu), in layered carboxylpropylamidephenylsilica (CPAPhS), which was developed in our previous research, with regular carboxyl groups, and the tert-butyl ester as protective groups of carboxyls in amino acids was cleaved with dilute trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). The improved XRD response indicated that the two dimensional layered structure had been retained in L-Leu-APAPhS and D-Ala-APAPhS. The chiral behaviors of layered molecular spaces CPAPhS, L-(+)-Leu-APAPhS and D-(−)-Ala-APAPhS were investigated. DL-Alanine tert-butyl ester (DL-Ala-OtBu) was grafted in the achiral layered molecular space CPAPhS as enantiomer pair, even if 70% L-Ala-OtBu and 30% D-Ala-OtBu existed in the reaction solution. L-(+)-Leu-APAPhS and D-(−)-Ala-APAPhS represented better chiral selectivity for amino acids both in chiral selective reactions and chiral column chromatography experiments, and exhibited the potential of chiral layered molecular space with an amino acid structure for chiral molecular recognition and selection processes. The formation of L-Leu-APAPhS-L-Ala-OMe also exhibited potential for that multi-amino acid (peptide) can be grafted in CPAPhS to form layered molecular spaces with peptides.

Graphical abstract: Chiral layered molecular spaces with amino acids

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Jul 2009
Accepted
17 Sep 2009
First published
07 Oct 2009

J. Mater. Chem., 2009,19, 8803-8809

Chiral layered molecular spaces with amino acids

W. Liu, K. Yao, W. Shangguan and J. Yuan, J. Mater. Chem., 2009, 19, 8803 DOI: 10.1039/B913190F

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