Abstract
Sulforaphane and iberin are promising chemopreventive chiral phytochemicals. The chirality of these organic isothiocyanates is due to the presence of a stereogenic sulfur atom. Investigations of the effectiveness of single enantiomers as chemoprotective agents highlight the key role played by sulfur chirality on biological activity. The predominant native (R)-enantiomer is active whereas the (S)-counterpart is inactive or poorly active.Here, we provide an enantioselective method for the direct and complete resolution of both chiral sulfoxides by high-performance liquid chromatography on immobilized amylose-derived chiral stationary phases. A set of five different columns was investigated utilizing normal-phase, polar organic and aqueous conditions. The effect of the composition of mobile phase on enantioselectivity and retention was carefully evaluated.U-shape retention maps, which are indicative of a double and competitive hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography and reversed-phase liquid chromatography retention mechanism, were established by recording the retention factors of the enantiomers of sulforaphane on the Chiralpak IA-3 and Chiralpak IG-3 chiral stationary phases varying progressively the water content in the water-acetonitrile mobile phases.
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