Publications by authors named "Chuan-Qing Kang"

We present the determination of the absolute configuration of a chiral 2,3'-diindolylarylmethane 1 by using the combination of NMR spectroscopic and circular dichroism techniques. The results would be useful for the future study of the effect of chirality on the biological activity of 2,3'-diindolylarylmethanes.

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A general procedure to determine the absolute configuration of cyclic secondary amines with Mosher's NMR method is demonstrated, with assignment of absolute configuration of isoanabasine as an example. Each Mosher amide can adopt two stable conformations (named rotamers) caused by hindered rotation around amide C--N bond. Via a three-step structural analysis of four rotamers, the absolute configuration of (-)-isoanabasine is deduced to be (R) on the basis of Newman projections, which makes it easy to understand and clarify the application of Mosher's method to cyclic secondary amines.

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