Autocatalytic Enantiomerisation at the Crystal Surface in Deracemisation of Scalemic Conglomerates

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 39, 2009, Pages 10255-10262

  Wei, Shengwei ^a   Mauksch, Michael ^a   Tsogoeva, Svetlana B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amplification; Asymmetric synthesis; Chiral resolution; Chirality; Crystal growth

Indexed keywords

ACHIRAL CATALYST; ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS; AUTOCATALYTIC; C-C BONDS; CHIRAL COMPOUNDS; CHIRAL PRODUCT; CHIRAL RESOLUTION; CHIRAL RESOLUTIONS; CRYSTAL SURFACES; ENANTIOMERIC EXCESS; ENANTIOPURE; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; ISOTHERMAL HEATING; KINETIC MODELS; LIFE-TIMES; PYRROLIDINES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SATURATED SOLUTIONS; SMALL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; TEM;

AMPLIFICATION; CATALYSIS; CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENANTIOMERS; EXPERIMENTS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; PHASE INTERFACES; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

COMPLEXATION;

EID: 70349686747     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200900979     Document Type: Article

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