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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2024

Exact and Ubiquitous Condition for Solid-State Deracemization in Vitro and in Nature.

Leif-Thore Deck, Mercedeh Sadat Hosseinalipour, Marco Mazzotti

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. How Crystal Size and Number Steer Asymmetric Crystallization.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Leif-Thore DeckInstitute of Energy and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0955-6801
Mercedeh Sadat HosseinalipourInstitute of Energy and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland.
Marco MazzottiInstitute of Energy and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4948-6705

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Solid-state deracemization is the amplification of an enantiomeric excess in suspensions of conglomerate-forming chiral compounds. Although numerous chemical and biochemical compounds deracemize, its governing mechanism has remained elusive. We introduce a novel formulation of the classical population-based model of deracemization through temperature cycles to prove that suspensions deracemize whenever a simple and ubiquitous condition is met: crystal dissolution must be faster than crystal growth. Such asymmetry is a known principle of crystallization, hence explaining the generality of deracemization. Through both experiments and a theoretical analysis, we demonstrate that this condition applies even for very small temperature cycles and for random temperature fluctuations. These findings establish solid-state deracemization as an attractive route to the manufacture of enantiopure products and as a plausible pathway toward the emergence of homochirality in nature.

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PMID38306469
PMCPMC10870780

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