PMID- 21726870 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20111021 LR - 20121115 IS - 1873-3778 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9673 (Linking) VI - 1218 IP - 31 DP - 2011 Aug 5 TI - Computational modeling of capillary electrophoretic behavior of primary amines using dual system of 18-crown-6 and beta-cyclodextrin. PG - 5344-51 LID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.06.030 [doi] AB - Using capillary electrophoresis (CE) three chiral primary amine compounds 1-aminoindan (AI), 1-(1-naphthyl)ethylamine (NEA) and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-naphthylamine (THAN), exhibited only partial or no separation when beta-cyclodextrin (betaCD) was used as chiral selector. The use of 18-crown-6 (18C6) as a second additive with betaCD resulted in an enhanced separation. A molecular modeling study, using molecular mechanics and the semiempirical PM6 calculations, was used to help explaining the mechanism of the enantiodifferentiation and to predict the separation process. Optimization of the structures of the complexes by the PM6 method indicate that the poor separation obtained in the presence of the betaCD chiral selector alone is due to the small binding energy differences (DeltaDeltaE) of 4.7, 1.1 and 1.2 kcal mol(-1) for AI, NEA and THAN, respectively. In the presence of 18C6 it was suggested that a sandwich compound between 18C6, amine and betaCD is formed. Theoretical calculations show that a significant increase in the binding energy is obtained for the sandwich compounds indicating strong hydrophobic and van der Waals interactions that show enhanced enantiodifferentiation. CI - Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Elbashir, Abdalla A AU - Elbashir AA AD - Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Box 36, Al-Khod 123, Oman. hajaae@yahoo.com FAU - Suliman, FakhrEldin O AU - Suliman FO LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20110617 PL - Netherlands TA - J Chromatogr A JT - Journal of chromatography. A JID - 9318488 RN - 0 (Amines) RN - 0 (Crown Ethers) RN - 0 (beta-Cyclodextrins) RN - 63J177NC5B (18-crown-6) SB - IM MH - Amines/chemistry/*isolation & purification MH - Computer Simulation MH - Crown Ethers/*chemistry MH - Electrophoresis, Capillary/*instrumentation/methods MH - Models, Chemical MH - Stereoisomerism MH - beta-Cyclodextrins/*chemistry EDAT- 2011/07/06 06:00 MHDA- 2011/10/22 06:00 CRDT- 2011/07/06 06:00 PHST- 2011/02/05 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/06/02 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2011/06/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/07/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/07/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/10/22 06:00 [medline] AID - S0021-9673(11)00842-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.06.030 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Chromatogr A. 2011 Aug 5;1218(31):5344-51. doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.06.030. Epub 2011 Jun 17.