Enantiomorphous crystals of adeninium dinitrate acted as the source of chirality in asymmetric autocatalysis producing highly enantioenriched (S)- and (R)-5-pyrimidyl alkanols, with the absolute configurations corresponding to that of crystals.
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Asymmetric autocatalysis initiated by achiral nucleic acid base adenine: implications on the origin of homochirality of biomolecules
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Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 10538-10540
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC34928K
Received 10 Jul 2012, Accepted 31 Aug 2012
First published online 31 Aug 2012
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