Journal article
Rediscovering Pasteur's Quasiracemates
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol.47(1), pp.78-81
12/17/2007
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200704007
PMID: 18022885
Abstract
A fresh Pasteur: Reconstruction of Pasteur's 1853 account of peculiar three‐component crystals has confirmed the identities of the two crystalline phases as ammonium (+)‐bitartrate (central crystal) and a quasiracemate of ammonium (+)‐bitartrate/(−)‐bimalate (adjoining crystal laths). The quasiracemate contains approximately inversion‐related molecular assemblies in which each bitartrate and bimalate component forms a homomeric catemeric motif.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Rediscovering Pasteur's Quasiracemates
- Creators
- Kraig A WheelerRebecca C GroveRaymond E DavisW. Scott Kassel
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol.47(1), pp.78-81
- Publisher
- WILEY‐VCH Verlag; Weinheim
- DOI
- 10.1002/anie.200704007
- PMID
- 18022885
- ISSN
- 1433-7851
- eISSN
- 1521-3773
- Number of pages
- 4
- Grant note
- National Science Foundation (0521062) American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/17/2007
- Academic Unit
- Chemistry
- Record Identifier
- 9983985922102771
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