Serine Sublimes with Spontaneous Chiral Amplification

Authors

Richard H. Perry, Purdue UniversityFollow
Chunping Wu, Purdue University
Marcela Nefliu, Purdue University
R. Graham Cooks, Purdue University

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Chemical Communications

ISSN

1359-7345

Publication Date

2007

Abstract

Sublimation of near-racemic samples of serine yields a sublimate which is highly enriched in the major enantiomer; this simple one-step process occurs under relatively mild conditions, and represents a possible mechanism for the chiral amplification step in homochirogenesis.

DOI

10.1039/B616196K

Issue

10

First Page

1071

Last Page

1073

Comments

©The Royal Society of Chemistry 2007

Additional Comments

NSF grant #: CHE-0412782

NSUWorks Citation

Perry, R. H., Wu, C., Nefliu, M., & Cooks, R. G. (2007). Serine Sublimes with Spontaneous Chiral Amplification. Chemical Communications, (10), 1071 - 1073. https://doi.org/10.1039/B616196K. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cnso_chemphys_facarticles/180