Publication: Homochirality beyond grinding: deracemizing chiral crystals by
temperature gradient under boiling
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2011
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Royal Society of Chemistry
Abstract
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.