Issue 7, 2015

Attrition-induced spontaneous chiral amplification of the γ polymorphic modification of glycine

Abstract

Glycine is the simplest achiral amino acid that undergoes spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking when it crystallizes in its chiral γ-polymorphic modification. As a result of Ostwald ripening, its racemic mixture stochastically becomes optically active. The sense of the resulting handedness can be controlled by addition of one enantiomer of a simple chiral amino acid, the alanine.

Graphical abstract: Attrition-induced spontaneous chiral amplification of the γ polymorphic modification of glycine

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
09 Dec. 2014
Accepted
06 Janv. 2015
First published
15 Janv. 2015

CrystEngComm, 2015,17, 1513-1517

Attrition-induced spontaneous chiral amplification of the γ polymorphic modification of glycine

A. V. Tarasevych, A. E. Sorochinsky, V. P. Kukhar, L. Toupet, J. Crassous and J. Guillemin, CrystEngComm, 2015, 17, 1513 DOI: 10.1039/C4CE02434F

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