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Enantiomeric Analysis of Chiral Isotopomers via Microwave Three-Wave Mixing
journal contribution
posted on 2019-03-18, 00:00 authored by Lincoln Satterthwaite, Cristóbal Pérez, Amanda L. Steber, Dylan Finestone, Robert L. Broadrup, David PattersonMany achiral molecules
can be made chiral by appropriate positioning
of an isotope. Accurate detection of this type of chirality has remained
elusive, and there is as yet no general method for detection of isotopically
chiral species. Here, we present the first application of microwave
three-wave mixing to isotopically chiral molecules, detecting enantiomeric
excess in (R/S)-benzyl-α-D1 alcohol. Our method is expected to be applicable to a broad
range of isotopically chiral molecules with a prochiral parent species.