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Simultaneous chiral resolution of two racemic compounds by preferential cocrystallization

Fuli Zhou, Oleksii Shemchuk, Maxime D. Charpentier, Chloé Matheys, Laurent Collard, Joop H. ter Horst, Tom Leyssens*

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Abstract

We tap into an unexplored area of preferential crystallization, being the first to develop simultaneous chiral resolution of two racemic compounds by preferential cocrystallization. We highlight how the two racemic compounds RS-mandelic acid (MAN) and RS-etiracetam (ETI) can be combined together as enantiospecific R-MAN⋅R-ETI and S-MAN⋅S-ETI cocrystals forming a stable conglomerate system and subsequently develop a cyclic preferential crystallization allowing to simultaneous resolve both compounds. The developed process leads to excellent enantiopurity both for etiracetam (ee>98 %) and mandelic acid (ee≈95 %) enantiomers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)20264-20268
Number of pages5
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume60
Issue number37
Early online date6 Aug 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Sept 2021

Funding

F.Z. would like to thank the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for financial support. The “FSR Incoming Post‐doctoral Fellowship” is acknowledged for financial support of OS. This work was financed by PDR T.0149.19. M.D.C. and J.H.tH received funding as part of the CORE project (October 2016‐September 2020) from the European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Sklodowska‐Curie grant arrangement No 722456 CORE ITN.

Keywords

  • chiral resolution
  • cocrystals
  • conglomerate
  • preferential crystallization
  • simultaneous resolution

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