title: High temperature sublimation of α-amino acids: a realistic prebiotic process leading to large enantiomeric excess.
abstract: The reiterative high temperature co-sublimation of an enantiopure or an enantioenriched α-amino acid mixed with racemic α-amino acids leads to deracemization of the latter. A synergistic effect is observed for complex mixtures, and the sense of the handedness is, for all compounds, identical to that of the enantioenriched starting material.
authors: Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, CNRS UMR 6226, 11 Allée de Beaulieu, CS50837, 35708 Rennes Cedex 7, France. jean-claude.guillemin@ensc-rennes.fr.
authors: Arkadii V
authors: AV
authors: Tarasevych
authors: Alexander E
authors: AE
authors: Sorochinsky
authors: Valery P
authors: VP
authors: Kukhar
authors: Jean-Claude
authors: JC
authors: Guillemin
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D044367:Phase Transition; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids