Table 1.
Melting point data °C.
Melting point data °C.
Compound |
Findlay4
|
Sinnema
et al.5 |
Willstätter
et al.7 |
Merck9
|
This
Work |
(-)-Cocaine |
-
|
-
|
-
|
98
|
96-97
|
(+)-Cocaine |
-
|
-
|
98
|
-
|
-
|
(±)-Cocaine |
79-80
|
-
|
79-80
|
-
|
74-75
|
(-)-Cocaine HCl |
-
|
-
|
192
|
195
|
194-196
|
(±)-Cocaine HCl |
187
|
-
|
187
|
-
|
186-188
|
(+)-Pseudococaine |
-
|
-
|
43-45
|
47
|
-
|
(±)-Pseudococaine |
81.5
|
-
|
81.5
|
-
|
oil
|
(+)-Pseudococaine HCl |
-
|
-
|
205
|
210
|
208-210
|
(±)-Pseudococaine HCl |
205.5
|
-
|
205-206
|
-
|
202-204
|
(±)-Allococaine |
93-95
|
95-97
|
-
|
-
|
94-96
|
(±)-Allococaine HCl |
oil
|
oil
|
-
|
-
|
oil
|
(±)-Pseudoallococaine |
82-84
|
83-84
|
-
|
-
|
oil
|
(±)-Pseudoallococaine HCl |
201.5
|
209-210
|
-
|
-
|
203-205
|
Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Fig. 4. | Cocaine |
Fig. 5. | Pseudococaine |
Fig. 6. | Allococaine |
Fig. 7. | Pseudoallococaine |
Proton NMR spectra of the diastereoisomeric cocaines are significantly different. Major differences are seen in the chemical shifts associated with the respective C-3 protons. In addition, the coupling patterns that arise from the vicinal coupling of C-2 and C-4 protons with the C-3 proton are first order and relate nicely to the Karplus equation5.
That the diastereoisomeric cocaines, can easily be distinguished by observation of the chemical shifts and coupling patterns associated with the C-3 proton does not imply that other differences do not exist. In fact, virtually every proton in these molecules exhibits a different chemical shift or coupling pattern
COCAINE
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- Findlay, S. P., J. Org. Chem., 24, 1540-1550 (1959)
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31st Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia, Feb. 1979. - Eliel, E. L., Stereochemistry of Carbon Compounds, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1962, pp. 43-47.