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Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Nov 07;47(41):11432-4. doi: 10.1039/c1cc12317c. Epub 2011 Sep 22.

Conglomerate with periodic enantiomer inclusion: a mechanism for homochirality erosion.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Seokhoon Ahn, John T Henssler, Adam J Matzger

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry and the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

PMID: 21938300 DOI: 10.1039/c1cc12317c

Abstract

Two-dimensional enantiomers arising from an achiral oligomer form two-dimensional crystals that simultaneously display random mixing along one axis and periodic order along the other axis. This chirality behavior is interpreted in the contexts of kinetics and thermodynamics and considered as a mechanism for eroded enantioenrichment during recrystallization of scalemic mixtures.

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