title: Homochirality beyond grinding: deracemizing chiral crystals by temperature gradient under boiling.
abstract: A single-chirality solid phase can be obtained in boiling solutions containing a racemic mixture of left- and right-handed enantiomorphous crystals due to dissolution-crystallization cycles induced by a temperature gradient. This phenomenon provides further insights into asymmetric amplification mechanisms under presumably prebiotic conditions.
authors: Departamento de Cristalografía y Mineralogía, Facultad de Geología, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain. viedma@geo.ucm.es
authors: Cristóbal
authors: C
authors: Viedma
authors: Pedro
authors: P
authors: Cintas
mesh_terms: D002704:Chlorates / Q000737:chemistry; D003460:Crystallization; D006358:Hot Temperature; D056692:Prebiotics; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D002704:Chlorates; D056692:Prebiotics; C032706:sodium chlorate