Serine sublimes with spontaneous chiral amplification.
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.
Perry
Richard H
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Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
Wu
Chunping
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Nefliu
Marcela
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Cooks
R Graham
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