1. Di(1-naphthyl) methanol ester of carboxylic acids for absolute stereochemical determination
Jun Zhang, Wei Sheng, Hadi Gholami, Tatsuo Nehira, Babak Borhan Chirality. 2018 Feb;30(2):141-146. doi: 10.1002/chir.22775. Epub 2017 Nov 8.
The absolute stereochemistry of chiral carboxylic acids is determined as a di(1-naphthyl)methanol ester derivative. Computational scoring of conformations favoring either P or M helicity of the naphthyl groups, capable of exciton-coupled circular dichroic coupling, leads to a predicted stereochemistry for the derivatized carboxylic acids.