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2D Random Organization of Racemic Amino Acid Monolayers Driven by Nanoscale Adsorption Footprints: Proline on Cu(110)
Author(s) -
Forster Matthew,
Dyer Matthew S.,
Persson Mats,
Raval Rasmita
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200904979
Subject(s) - enantiopure drug , chirality (physics) , homochirality , enantiomer , enantioselective synthesis , scanning tunneling microscope , amino acid , molecule , chemistry , adsorption , monolayer , racemic mixture , nucleobase , nanotechnology , stereochemistry , catalysis , materials science , organic chemistry , chiral symmetry breaking , physics , dna , quantum mechanics , quark , nambu–jona lasinio model , biochemistry
Amino acids find their feet : Scanning tunneling microscopy of racemic ( R , S ) ‐ proline on Cu(110) reveals rows of random chiral amino acid sequences, showing that organization is not governed by molecular chirality. Instead, the system is dictated by a strict heterochiral adsorption‐footprint template, in which each adsorption position can be occupied by either enantiomer (see picture), resulting in a random solid solution in 2D.