Complete chiral symmetry breaking of an amino acid derivative directed by circularly polarized light

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 729-732

  Noorduin, Wim L ^a   Bode, Arno A C ^a   Van Der Meijden, Maarten ^b   Meekes, Hugo ^a   Van Etteger, Albert F ^a   Van Enckevort, Willem J P ^a   Christianen, Peter C M ^a   Kaptein, Bernard ^c   Kellogg, Richard M ^b   Rasing, Theo ^a   Vlieg, Elias ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Syncom BV   (Netherlands)

^c DSM Pharmaceutical Products   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

1,8 DIAZABICYCLO(5.4.0)UNDEC 7 ENE; 1,8-DIAZABICYCLO(5.4.0)UNDEC-7-ENE; AMINO ACID; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIGHT; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; STEREOISOMERISM; TIME; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

AMINO ACIDS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; LIGHT; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; STEREOISOMERISM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70749159846     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.416     Document Type: Article

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