Kinetic Resolution of Racemic Mixtures Via Enantioselective Photocatalysis

Overview

Journal ACS Appl Mater Interfaces

Publisher American Chemical Society

Specialties Biomedical Engineering
Biotechnology

Date 2021 Aug 11

PMID 34378379

Authors

Nitai Arbell

Kesem Bauer

Yaron Paz

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Abstract

Despite the increasing demand for enantiopure drugs in the pharmaceutical industry, currently available chiral separation technologies are still lagging behind, whether due to throughput or to operability considerations. This paper presents a new kinetic resolution method, based on the specific adsorption of a target enantiomer onto a molecularly imprinted surface of a photocatalyst and its subsequent degradation through a photocatalytic mechanism. The current model system is composed of an active TiO layer, on which the target enantiomer is adsorbed. A photocatalytic suppression layer of AlO is then grown around the adsorbed target molecules by atomic layer deposition. Following the removal of the templating molecules, molecularly imprinted cavities that correspond to the adsorbed species are formed. The stereospecific nature of these pores encourages enantioselective degradation of the undesired species through its enhanced adsorption on the photocatalyst surface, while dampening nonselective photocatalytic activity around the imprinted sites. The method, demonstrated with the dipeptide leucylglycine as a model system, revealed a selectivity factor of up to 7 and an enrichment of a single enantiomer to 85% from an initially racemic mixture. The wide range of parameters that can be optimized (photocatalyst, concentration of imprinted sites, type of passivating layer, etc.) points to the great potential of this method for obtaining enantiomerically pure compounds, beginning from racemic mixtures.

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