Issue 48, 2012
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Chemical Communications

Absolute chirality of the γ-polymorph of glycine: correlation of the absolute structure with the optical rotation†‡

Kazuhiko Ishikawa,a   Masahito Tanaka,b   Toshiya Suzuki,a   Akiko Sekine,c   Tsuneomi Kawasaki,d   Kenso Soai,d   Motoo Shiro,a   Meir Lahave  and  Toru Asahi*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care, and TWIns, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
E-mail: tasahi@waseda.jp

b National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

c Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

d Department of Applied Chemistry and Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan

e Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Abstract

Crystal specimens of the γ-polymorph of achiral glycine which crystallize in space groups P31 and P32 as determined by the anomalous X-ray scattering method are shown to be laevorotatory and dextrorotatory, respectively, as determined by optical rotation of the crystals.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC30549F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
24 Jan 2012
Accepted
26 Apr 2012
First published
27 Apr 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 6031-6033

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Absolute chirality of the γ-polymorph of glycine: correlation of the absolute structure with the optical rotation

K. Ishikawa, M. Tanaka, T. Suzuki, A. Sekine, T. Kawasaki, K. Soai, M. Shiro, M. Lahav and T. Asahi, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 6031 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC30549F

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