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Homochirality beyond grinding: deracemizing chiral crystals by temperature gradient under boiling

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2011
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Royal Society of Chemistry
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A single-chirality solid phase can be obtained in boiling solutions containing a racemic mixture of left- and right-handed enantiomorphous crystals due to dissolution–crystallization cycles induced by a temperature gradient. This phenomenon provides further insights into asymmetric amplification mechanisms under presumably prebiotic conditions.
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