Enantioselective symmetry breaking directed by the order of process steps

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2539-2541

  Noorduin, Wim L ^a   Meekes, Hugo ^a   Van Enckevort, Willem J P ^a   Kaptein, Bernard ^b   Kellogg, Richard M ^c   Vlieg, Elias ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Innovative Synthesis and Catalysis   (Netherlands)

^c Syncom BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Additives; Chiral resolution; Crystal growth; Dissolution; Symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL RESOLUTION; CHIRAL RESOLUTIONS; CRYSTAL GROWTH AND DISSOLUTION; ENANTIOSELECTIVE; GLASS BEAD; MIXTURE COMPONENTS; PROCESS STEPS; RACEMIC MIXTURES; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSOLUTION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; STEREOISOMERISM;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SOLUTIONS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 77950285663     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200907231     Document Type: Article

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