4. What conclusions can you draw about the efficiency of the reaction from these calculations? For example:
Atom Economy is high – almost all of the atoms of the reactants are incorporated into the product AE is approximately equal to RME, good efficiency, no excess of reactants used MI not as good and this is mainly due to the work-up procedure (although MI would have been a lot higher if for example chromatography had been used for purification)
NB These calculations do not show that 2 equiv of a reagent (the borate ester) are being used– swamped in MI calculation due to the work-up, not included in RME. Also these calculations do not tell us anything about other parameters – i.e. the ‘bigger picture’
5. What proportion of the Mass Intensity is attributable to the work-up procedure? 𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 − 𝑢𝑝 (𝑀𝐼) =
𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 − 𝑢𝑝 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡
𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 − 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑢𝑝 (𝑀𝐼) =
39.9 + 22 + 20.34 + 2 0.41
𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 − 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑢𝑝 (𝑀𝐼) =
84.24 0.41
𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 − 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑢𝑝 (𝑀𝐼) = 205.5
𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 − 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 % 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑀𝐼 =
205.5 × 100 = 94.7% 217
Data adapted from Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 1320. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C0OB01069C) Some adaptations have been made: volumes and masses for some work-up chemicals have been estimated to allow metrics calculations. This has been done using best approximations based on the scale of the reaction where data was not provided. This education and training material has been created with funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking under grant agreement n°115360, resources of which are composed of financial contribution from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) and EFPIA companies’ in kind contribution The views expressed in regards to education and training materials represent the aspiration of the CHEM21 consortium, although may not always be the view of each individual organisation