Chemical Communications Pub Date : 06/24/2009 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/B908754K
Abstract
Achiral meteoritic amino acids, glycine and α-methylalanine, with hydrogen isotope (D/H) chirality, acted as the source of chirality in asymmetric autocatalysis with amplification of ee to afford highly enantioenriched 5-pyrimidyl alkanols.
