Preparation of Carbodiimides with One-Handed Axial Chirality

J Am Chem Soc. 2018 Nov 21;140(46):15577-15581. doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b08969. Epub 2018 Nov 9.

Abstract

The axial chirality of carbodiimide was proposed in 1932, but the synthesis of carbodiimide with one-handed axial chirality has not been achieved because of the low barrier of racemization. This work presents a strategy to use a conformationally restrained cyclic structure for creating carbodiimides whose biases of the axial chirality (labeled as SNCN/ RNCN) are higher than 100:1, as determined by vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't