Making carbon–carbon bonds is hard. Linking racemic mixtures of two alkyls while simultaneously controlling the stereochemistry of both ends of the product is nigh on impossible. Now Gregory Fu, ...
A racemic mixture of tartaric acid forms mirror-image domains with equal propensity when adsorbed on a copper surface. When one enantiomer is present in a slight excess, however, only ordered domains ...
Paper presented on July 10, 1952. See, for example, the exhaustive review by Bltchie, P. D., “Advances in Enzymol.”, 7, 65 (1947). Henderson, G. M., and Rule, H ...