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From Ostwald Ripening to Single Chirality
Author(s) -
Noorduin Wim L.,
Vlieg Elias,
Kellogg Richard M.,
Kaptein Bernard
Publication year - 2009
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.200905215
Subject(s) - ostwald ripening , chirality (physics) , chemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , physics , chiral symmetry breaking , quantum mechanics , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark
A century ago Wilhelm Ostwald received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Although Ostwald was never significantly involved with the phenomenon of chirality, one of his discoveries, Ostwald ripening, is thought to be involved in a recently discovered method in which grinding‐induced attrition is used to transform racemic conglomerates virtually quantitatively into a single enantiomer. In this Minireview the basic concepts developed by Ostwald will be introduced, followed by a summary of the current status of grinding‐induced asymmetric transformations. We will see how close Ostwald himself came to discovering this technique.