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Engineering360: "New Sieve Sorts Molecules by Chirality"

05/03/2017 12:58 PM

Read Engineering360 article: New Sieve Sorts Molecules by Chirality.

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Re: New Sieve Sorts Molecules by Chirality

05/03/2017 4:36 PM

This is really a milestone advance, since it does require converting the racemic mixture to physically separable diastereoisomers. Just filter it through, and whammo, you have the active optical isomer in one pot, and the inactive one in the other pot.

Way to go!!!

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