Detecting efficient chiral compound catalysts
Scientists in the United States have developed a sensor that could be used to help develop more efficient catalysts for producing chiral compounds in industry.
In research they describe the preparation of inexpensive palladium complexes that provide a sensitive UV signal in the presence of some chiral compounds.
In industry, chiral compounds have a range of uses from production of pharmaceuticals to food. Asymmetric catalysts provide a way to produce an excess of the desired enantiomer, but the discovery of new asymmetric catalysts is slowed down by insufficient methods to measure the enantiomeric excess the catalysts are able to produce.
The use of these palladium complexes to screen catalysts by measuring enantiomeric excess via UV spectroscopy is simple and sensitive and does not require covalent modification of the analyte, but works directly.
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