scholarly journals A Potentially Limitless Chiral Pool via Conglomerate Crystallisation: Unidentified Spontaneous Resolution in the CSD.

Author(s):  
Mark Walsh ◽  
James Barclay ◽  
Callum Begg ◽  
Jinyi Xuan ◽  
Matthew Kitching

Conglomerate crystallisation is the behaviour responsible for spontaneous resolution and the discovery of molecular chirality by Pasteur. The phenomenon of conglomerate crystallisation of chiral organic molecules has been left largely undocumented and offers synthetic chemists a potential new chiral pool not reliant on biological systems to supply stereochemical information. While other crystallographic behaviours can be interrogated by automated searching, conglomerate crystallisations are not identified within the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and are therefore not accessible by conventional means. By conducting a manual search of the CSD, a list of over 1,700 chiral species capable of conglomerate crystallisation was curated by inspection of the synthetic routes described in each publication. The majority of these are produced by synthetic chemists who seldom note and rarely exploit the implications this phenomenon can have on the enantioenrichment of their crystalline materials. We propose that this list represents a limitless chiral pool which will continually grow in size as more conglomerate crystals are synthesised and recorded.

CrystEngComm ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (43) ◽  
pp. 7371-7379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Pratt Brock

Layers having obvious approximate symmetry higher than that of the overall 3-D crystal are present in 20–25% of the Z′ > 4 and P1 organic structures archived in the Cambridge Structural Database. In some structures different types of layers alternate.


CrystEngComm ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana S Veljković ◽  
Danijela S. Kretić ◽  
Dušan Ž Veljković

Non-covalent selenium-selenium interactions between selenium-containing organic molecules were studied in crystal structures from the Cambridge Structural Database and by high-level quantum chemical calculations. Se…Se contacts in crystal structures were analyzed...


Author(s):  
C. Foces-Foces ◽  
N. Jagerovic ◽  
J. Elguero

AbstractThe crystal structure of 1,3,5-triphenyl-2-pyrazoline has been determined. Although the absolute configuration could not be established, the compound is enantiomerically pure. The 43 structures of pyrazolines, neutral or salts, found in the Cambridge Structural Database have been classified according to their diastereogenic properties.


1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 2059-2065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Vojtěchovský ◽  
Jindřich Hašek ◽  
Jiří Ječný ◽  
Karel Huml

Title compound is triclinic, Mr = 461.60; P1, a = 9.158(1), b = 16.062(3), c = 19.472(3) Å, α = 110.69(1)°, β = 89.70(1)°, γ = 103.17(1)°, V = 2 600(1) Å3, Z = 4, Do = 1.15(3), Dc = 1.179(1) Mg m-3, λ(CuKα) = 1.5418 Å, μ = 0.509 mm-1, F(000) = 976 K, R = 0.040 for 8 059 unique observed reflections. Both symmetrically independent molecules show a different geometry of the 1,4-dihydropyridine ring: either the boat conformation with apexes C(sp3), N and boat angles 14.7(3)° and 10.3(2)° respectively, or the planar conformation. The conformation has been compared with similar dihydropyridines obtained from Cambridge Structural Database.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (32) ◽  
pp. 8373-8387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peyman Z. Moghadam ◽  
Aurelia Li ◽  
Xiao-Wei Liu ◽  
Rocio Bueno-Perez ◽  
Shu-Dong Wang ◽  
...  

Large-scale targeted exploration of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) with characteristics such as specific surface chemistry or metal-cluster family has not been investigated so far.


2002 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Guy Orpen

Applications of the data in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) to knowledge acquisition and fundamental research in molecular inorganic chemistry are reviewed. Various classes of application are identified, including the derivation of typical molecular dimensions and their variability and transferability, the derivation and testing of theories of molecular structure and bonding, the identification of reaction paths and related conformational analyses based on the structure correlation hypothesis, and the identification of common and presumably energetically favourable intermolecular interactions. In many of these areas, the availability of plentiful structural data from the CSD is set against the emergence of high-quality computational data on the geometry and energy of inorganic complexes.


2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 959-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Karolak-Wojciechowska ◽  
A. Fruzinski

Based on our contemporary studies on the structures of biologically active molecules, we focus our attention on the aliphatic chain and its conformation. That flexible spacer definitely influenced the balanced position of all pharmacophoric points in molecules of biological ligands. The one atomic linker and two or three atomic spacers with one heteroatom X =O, S, CH2, NH have been taken into account. The conformational preferences clearly depend on the heteroatom X. In the discussion, we utilize our own X-ray data, computation chemistry methods, population analysis, and statistical data from the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD).


Author(s):  
Wilhelm Maximilian Hützler ◽  
Michael Bolte

In order to study the preferred hydrogen-bonding pattern of 6-amino-2-thiouracil, C4H5N3OS, (I), crystallization experiments yielded five different pseudopolymorphs of (I), namely the dimethylformamide disolvate, C4H5N3OS·2C3H7NO, (Ia), the dimethylacetamide monosolvate, C4H5N3OS·C4H9NO, (Ib), the dimethylacetamide sesquisolvate, C4H5N3OS·1.5C4H9NO, (Ic), and two different 1-methylpyrrolidin-2-one sesquisolvates, C4H5N3OS·1.5C5H9NO, (Id) and (Ie). All structures containR21(6) N—H...O hydrogen-bond motifs. In the latter four structures, additionalR22(8) N—H...O hydrogen-bond motifs are present stabilizing homodimers of (I). No type of hydrogen bond other than N—H...O is observed. According to a search of the Cambridge Structural Database, most 2-thiouracil derivatives form homodimers stabilized by anR22(8) hydrogen-bonding pattern, with (i) only N—H...O, (ii) only N—H...S or (iii) alternating pairs of N—H...O and N—H...S hydrogen bonds.


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