%0 Journal
%T High temperature sublimation of a-amino acids: a realistic prebiotic process leading to large enantiomeric excess
%A Tarasevych, A.V., Sorochinsky, A.E., Kukharb, V.P., and Guillemin, J-C.
%J Chem. Commun.
%V 51
%P 7054-7
%D 2015
%R 10.1039/c5cc00254k
%X The reiterative high temperature co-sublimation of an enantiopure or an enantioenriched alpha-amino acid mixed with racemic alpha-amino acids leads to deracemization of the latter. A synergistic effect is observed for complex mixtures, and the sense of the handedness is, for all compounds, identical to that of the enantioenriched starting material.