A combined team of researchers from Princeton University and Yale University has developed a multicatalytic technique to enrich racemic mixtures directly to a single enantiomer in a single step. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their technique, how well it works and the ways it might be used. Alison Wendlandt with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has published a Perspective piece in the same journal issue discussing the new technique and its possible uses.
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Source: Phys.org