Viedma Ripening of Conglomerate Crystals of Achiral Molecules Monitored Using Solid-State Circular Dichroism

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• 作者：Dylan T. McLaughlin ; Thi Phuong Thao Nguyen ; Leinjo Mengnjo ; Cheng Bian ; Yat Hei Leung ; Elliot Goodfellow ; Parsram Ramrup ; Simon Woo ; Louis A. Cuccia
• 刊名：Crystal Growth & Design
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：March 5, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：14
• 期：3
• 页码：1067-1076
• 全文大小：598K
• 年卷期：v.14,no.3(March 5, 2014)
• ISSN：1528-7505

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Viedma ripening is the attrition-induced spontaneous chiral amplification of a conglomerate crystal mixture. To demonstrate the general nature of this deracemization process, we have extended attrition-enhanced chiral amplification to 10 achiral organic molecules that form conglomerate chiral crystals: benzil (1), diphenyl disulfide (2), benzophenone (3), tetraphenylethylene (4), guanidine carbonate (5), butylated hydroxytoluene (6), hippuric acid (7), ninhydrin (8), cytosine (9), and adeninium dinitrate (10). In these experiments the time required to reach homochirality was as low as 3 h and typically ranged from 25 to 50 h. In most cases amplification to homochirality of both enantiomers was observed in repeat experiments, although often in a nonstochastic fashion, reflecting the scalemic nature of the starting material. We have also demonstrated the utility of quantitative circular dichroism (CD) to determine enantiomeric excess in systems where chirality exists only in the solid-state.