Homochiral oligopeptides via surface recognition and enantiomeric cross impediment in the polymerization of racemic phenylalanine N-carboxyanhydride crystals suspended in water

Chirality

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 612-624

  Nery, Jose Geraldo ^a   Eliash, Ran ^a   Bolbach, Gerard ^b   Weissbuch, Isabelle ^a   Lahav, Meir ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Biochirogenesis; Homochiral peptides; MALDI TOF MS; Racemic phenylalanine N carboxyanhydride crystals; Solid state polymerization

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PHENYLALANINE DERIVATIVE; PHENYLALANINE N CARBOXYANHYDRIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BETA SHEET; CHIRALITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENANTIOMER; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIC MIXTURE;

ANHYDRIDES; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES; PHENYLALANINE; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STEREOISOMERISM; WATER;

EID: 34447566111     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: 1520636X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chir.20363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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