Pasteur revisited: chiral separation by crystallization on self-assembled monolayers?

CrystEngComm Pub Date: 2012-10-09 DOI: 10.1039/C2CE26415C

Abstract

We revisited Pasteur's crystallization based chiral separation and obtained >90% pure L-glutamic acid by using a D-penicillamine self-assembled monolayer as the resolving auxiliary and manually removing enantiopure crystals identified through Raman microscopy. Identical conditions in bulk solutions yielded only racemic crystals.

Graphical abstract: Pasteur revisited: chiral separation by crystallization on self-assembled monolayers
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