Development and validation of an experimental and theoretical method for the chiral discrimination of dinotefuran.

Chirality

Departamento de Ciências Naturais (DCNAT), Universidade Federal de São João Del-Rei (UFSJ), São João Del Rei, MG, Brazil.

Published: January 2020

Dinotefuran is a low-cost agrochemical considered a highly toxic product. In this sense, there is a need for its constant environmental, biological, and food control, aiming to ensure its use to humans as well as to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems. In the present work, we developed an experimental and theoretical method for dinotefuran chiral discrimination. According to the main results, the dinotefuran enantioselective separation was efficiently optimized by high-performance liquid chromatography evaluating the influence of different percentage compositions in the mobile phase to improve the resolution of the peaks in the chromatogram. The novelty of this work was the proposition of a reduced molecular model for the chiral selector amylose-Tris-(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) polysaccharide that was able to adequately describe at the molecular level its interaction with the dinotefuran enantiomers. Besides, the thermodynamic and structural parameters obtained via density functional theory calculations pointed out the chiral discrimination as well as the enantiomeric elution order of the analyte studied, confirming the experimental data, thus validating our proposed method. Finally, hydrogen bonds and repulsive interactions played a key role in the discrimination between the diastereomeric complexes, and consequently, for the dinotefuran enantioselective separation.

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