Emergence of a single solid chiral state from a nearly racemic amino acid derivative

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1158-1159

  Noorduin, Wim L ^a   Izumi, Toshiko ^b   Millemaggi, Alessia ^c   Leeman, Michel ^d   Meekes, Hugo ^a   Van Enckevort, Willem J P ^a   Kellogg, Richard M ^d   Kaptein, Bernard ^c   Vlieg, Elias ^a   Blackmond, Donna G ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DSM Pharmaceutical Products   (Netherlands)

^d Syncom BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; IMINE;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIASTEREOISOMER; ENANTIOMER; RACEMIC MIXTURE; SOLID STATE;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; SALTS; STEREOISOMERISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 38649109817     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja7106349     Document Type: Article

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