"Serine Sublimes with Spontaneous Chiral Amplification" by Richard H. Perry

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Serine Sublimes with Spontaneous Chiral Amplification

Chemical Communications

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

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Article

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Disciplines

Chemistry and
Physical Sciences and Mathematics

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.

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NSF grant #: CHE-0412782

DOI

10.1039/B616196K

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Richard H. Perry, Chunping Wu, Marcela Nefliu and R. Graham Cooks. "Serine Sublimes with Spontaneous Chiral Amplification" Chemical Communications Iss. 10 (2007) p. 1071 - 1073 ISSN: 1359-7345
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/richard-perry/22/