A.H.J. Engwerda, P. van Schayik, H. Jagtenberg, H. Meekes, F.P.J.T. Rutjes, E. Vlieg,
Solid Phase Deracemization of an atropisomer,
Cryst. Growth Des. 17 (5583-5585)

Abstract

The scope of Viedma ripening and temperature cycling with respect to chiral molecules has remained mostly limited to molecules with a single stereogenic center, while racemization proceeds through inversion at that particular stereocenter. In this article we demonstrate for the first time that atropisomers, chiral rotamers that possess an axis of chirality, can be successfully deracemized in the solid phase by either applying temperature cycling or Viedma ripening