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Chirality Transfer in a Methyl Lactate–Ammonia Complex Observed by Matrix‐Isolation Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
Author(s) -
Merten Christian,
Xu Yunjie
Publication year - 2013
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.201208685
Subject(s) - chirality (physics) , circular dichroism , vibrational circular dichroism , conformational isomerism , chemistry , enantiomer , spectroscopy , crystallography , photochemistry , stereochemistry , molecule , organic chemistry , physics , chiral symmetry , quantum mechanics , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark
Hand‐me‐down chirality : Chirality transfer from methyl lactate to ammonia has been investigated and the mirror‐imaged vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra of a pair of enantiomers of a flexible chiral molecular complex are presented. The distinct VCD spectral pattern provides decisive evidence for the existence of two dominant and subtly different conformers of the complex.