文摘
The enantiomers of eight axially chiral biaryls were separated by chiral HPLC. On-column enantiomerization of 1-(o-tolyl)naphthalene and 2-cyclohexyl-2′-dimethylaminobiphenyl was observed between 10 °C and 35 °C, generating characteristic HPLC elution profiles with a plateau between the resolved enantiomer peaks. Computer simulation of the experimentally obtained chromatograms allowed determination of the Gibbs free energies of activation, ΔG≠, as 93.2 kJ/mol and 88.4 kJ/mol, respectively.