Thiol-ene click derived structurally well-defined per(3,5-dimethyl)phenylcarbamoylated cationic cyclodextrin separation material for achiral and chiral chromatography.

In this work, a novel single sulfoether-bridged cationic per(3,5-dimethyl)phenylcarbamoylated-β-cyclodextrin separation material was prepared by thiol-ene click chemistry and characterized by using FTIR spectroscopy, solid-state 13 C NMR spectroscopy and elemental analysis, which confirmed the correct structure. The separation material exhibited a good achiral separation performance for benzene homologues and phenylamine analogs, especially o-xylene and m-xylene, and m-phenylenediamine and o-phenylenediamine can be discriminated by the (3,5-dimethyl)phenylcarbamoyl cyclodextrins. The chiral resolving ability of the separation material was evaluated by discriminating various isoxazolines, flavonoids, and β-blockers in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. For isoxazolines, the material showed the best chiral discrimination toward 3-aryl-5-(2-oxopyrrolidin-1-yl)-isoxazolines, where the resolution for 3ClPh-OPr  reached 6.03. For flavonoids, it exhibited more efficient separation to the ones with more hydrophobic substituents, with a resolution of 5.93 for 6-hydroxyflavanone. β-Blockers were also enantioseparated satisfactorily on the material. The as-prepared separation material is a good member of the thiol-ene click derived cyclodextrin stationary phase family.