Aroma Perception of Rose Oxide, Linalool and α-Terpineol Combinations in Gewürztraminer Wine

Cis-Rose oxide was found to be an important chiral compound in Gewürztraminer wine, with an enantiomeric ratio range from 76 to 58%. The enantiomeric ratio showed an important influence on white wine aroma when other monoterpenes were present. The aim of this study was to evaluate rose oxide at different ratios and changes to aroma perception, and the interaction of rose oxide with linalool and α-terpineol. A wine model was made based on Gewürztraminer wine. Twelve models were created with different ratios of rose oxide and concentrations of linalool and α-terpineol. Triangle tests, check-all-that-apply (CATA) and descriptive analysis were used to evaluate the aroma of the wines. Results show that the rose oxide ratios of 70:30 and 65:35 were statistically different. Additional descriptive analysis showed that the ratios altered aroma when linalool and α-terpineol were at low and medium concentrations. At high concentrations, linalool and α-terpineol masked any influence from rose oxide. Understanding how monoterpenes alter aroma perception of white wine when at different combinations and concentrations is important to achieving desired wine qualities and helps provide information on how flavor chemistry results can be interpreted without having to run sensory analysis.

Bispidine Platform as a Tool for Studying Amide Configuration Stability

In this work, the solution conformations of seventeen 3,7-diacyl bispidines were studied by means of NMR spectroscopy including VT NMR experiments. The acyl groups included alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, hetaryl, and ferrocene moieties. The presence of syn/anti-isomers and their ratios were estimated, and some reasons explaining experimental facts were formulated. In particular, all aliphatic and heterocyclic units in the acylic R(CO) fragments led to an increased content of the syn-form in DMSO-d6 solutions. In contrast, only the anti-form was detected in DMSO-d6 and CDCl3 in the case when R = Ph, ferrocenyl, (R)-myrtenyl. In the case of a chiral compound derived from the natural terpene myrtene, a new dynamic process was found in addition to the expected inversion around the amide N-C(O) bond. Here, rotation around the CO-C=C bond in the acylic R fragment was detected, and its energy was estimated. For this compound, ΔG for amide N-C(O) inversion was found to be equal to 15.0 ± 0.2 kcal/mol, and for the rotation around the N(CO)–C2′ bond, it was equal to 15.6 ± 0.3 kcal/mol. NMR analysis of the chiral bispidine-based bis-amide was conducted for the first time. Two X-ray structures are reported. For the first time, the unique syn-form was found in the crystal of an acyclic bispidine-based bis-amide. Quantum chemical calculations revealed the unexpected mechanism for amide bond inversion. It was found that the reaction does not proceed as direct N-C(O) bond inversion in the double-chair (CC) conformation but rather requires the conformational transformation into the chair–boat (CB) form first. The amide bond inversion in the latter requires less energy than in the CC form.

Optical deciphering of multinary chiral compound mixtures through organic reaction based chemometric chirality sensing

The advances of high-throughput experimentation technology and chemometrics have revolutionized the pace of scientific progress and enabled previously inconceivable discoveries, in particular when used in tandem. Here we show that the combination of chirality sensing based on small-molecule optical probes that bind to amines and amino alcohols via dynamic covalent or click chemistries and powerful chemometric tools that achieve orthogonal data fusion and spectral deconvolution yields a streamlined multi-modal sensing protocol that allows analysis of the absolute configuration, enantiomeric composition and concentration of structurally analogous—and therefore particularly challenging—chiral target compounds without laborious and time-consuming physical separation. The practicality, high accuracy, and speed of this approach are demonstrated with complicated quaternary and octonary mixtures of varying chemical and chiral compositions. The advantages over chiral chromatography and other classical methods include operational simplicity, increased speed, reduced waste production, low cost, and compatibility with multiwell plate technology if high-throughput analysis of hundreds of samples is desired.

The Efficient Synthesis of 2-(3-Carbamoylpyridine-2-yl) nicotinamide Pyridine Salts

: The synthesis of axially chiral compounds has attracted a great deal of attention in the recent years. Herein, an efficient and economical synthetic route has been developed for 2-(3-carbamoylpyridin-2-yl) nicotinamide pyridine salts, an axially chiral compound. The starting material 1,10-phenanthroline has been readily available and 2-(3-carbamoylpyridin-2-yl) nicotinamide pyridine salts have been obtained in moderate to good yields. This protocol features simple operation and easy scalability. In addition, the axial chirality of the products has also been preliminary studied.

Recent Development: Enantioselective Extraction in Chiral Separation

This paper discusses the recent development of enantioselective extraction methods. There are several methods in this field. The principles of all of enantioselective extraction methods are presented a focus on twophase extractions, in these methods used a chiral compound that named chiral selector, this compound distinguishes between two chiral isomers in complexation process, then one isomer more captured by chiral selector, and separation processes happen. The chiral selector should dissolve in on phase. In these methods, typical performance data are reported major emphasis on distribution ratio and enantioselectivity value or selectivity factor. In this paper, we introduce types of enantioselective extraction method, and discuss about them with several examples.

Nanoengineered chiral Pt-Ir alloys for high-performance enantioselective electrosynthesis

The design of efficient chiral catalysts is of crucial importance since it allows generating enantiomerically pure compounds. Tremendous efforts have been made over the past decades regarding the development of materials with enantioselective properties for various potential applications ranging from sensing to catalysis and separation. Recently, chiral features have been generated in mesoporous metals. Although these monometallic matrices show interesting enantioselectivity, they suffer from rather low stability, constituting an important roadblock for applications. Here, a straightforward strategy to circumvent this limitation by using nanostructured platinum-iridium alloys is presented. These materials can be successfully encoded with chiral information by co-electrodeposition from Pt and Ir salts in the simultaneous presence of a chiral compound and a lyotropic liquid crystal as asymmetric template and mesoporogen, respectively. The alloys enable a remarkable discrimination between chiral compounds and greatly improved enantioselectivity when used for asymmetric electrosynthesis (>95 %ee), combined with high electrochemical stability.

Synthesis and characterization of enantiopure planar–chiral phosphorus-linked diferrocenes

In the course of an ongoing synthetic project on cyclic diferrocenylphosphines, we obtained a group of planar–chiral diferrocenyl compounds useful as precursors for subsequent cyclization. Here we report the crystal structures of two symmetric compounds [(FcA)2(Ph)P], one of which contains four stereogenic centres (two C chiral and two planar chiral centres), i.e. 1,1′-(phenylphosphanediyl)bis{(2S p)-2-[(1R)-1-(acetyloxy)ethyl]ferrocene}, [Fe2(C5H5)2(C24H25O4P)], and the other phosphine sulfide is a purely planar–chiral compound (two planar chiral centres), i.e. bis[(2S p)--2-ethenylferrocen-1-yl]phenylphosphane sulfide, [Fe2(C5H5)2(C20H17PS)]. Owing to the stereocentres present, reactions performed on [(FcA)2(Ph)P]-type compounds strongly favour one ferrocene unit over the other due to diastereoselectivity. Furthermore, we present four related structures where the ferrocene units are not identical [(FcA)(FcB)(Ph)P]. These are {(2S p)-2-[(1R)-1-(acetyloxy)ethyl]ferrocen-1-yl}[(2S p)-2-ethenylferrocen-1-yl]phenyl-(S)-phosphine sulfide, [Fe2(C5H5)2(C22H21O2PS)], [(2S p)-2-ethenylferrocen-1-yl]{(2S p)-2-[(1R)-1-hydroxyethyl]ferrocen-1-yl}phenyl-(S)-phosphine sulfide, [Fe2(C5H5)2(C20H19OPS)], {(2S p)-2-[(1R)-1-(acetyloxy)ethyl]ferrocen-1-yl}{(2S p)-2-[(1R)-1-hydroxyethyl]ferrocen-1-yl}phenyl-(R)-phosphine sulfide, [Fe2(C5H5)2(C22H23O3PS)], and {(2S p)-2-[(1R)-1-benzylamino)ethyl]ferrocen-1-yl}[(2S p)-2-ethenylferrocen-1-yl]phenyl-(S)-phosphine sulfide, [Fe2(C5H5)2(C27H26NPS)]. All of the structures are accessible in one step from known precursors.

Recent Development: Enantio Selective Eextraction in Chiral Separation

This paper discusses the recent development of enantioselective extraction methods. There are several methods in this field. The principles of all of enantioselective extraction methods are presented a focus on twophase extractions, in these methods used a chiral compound that named chiral selector, this compound distinguishes between two chiral isomers in complexation process, then one isomer more captured by chiral selector, and separation processes happen. The chiral selector should dissolve in on phase. In these methods, typical performance data are reported major emphasis on distribution ratio and enantioselectivity value or selectivity factor. In this paper, we introduce types of enantioselective extraction method, and discuss about them with several examples.

Extraordinary magnetic field effects on the LC phases of homochiral and racemic 4-cyanoresorcinol-based diamagnetic bent-core mesogens

A huge effect of a magnetic field on the layer spacing of smectic and polar smectic liquid crystalline phases of a diamagnetic bent-core mesogen is reported, which is opposite for the uniformly chiral compound and its racemic mixture.