%0 Journal
%T Racemic D,L-asparagine causes enantiomeric excess of other coexisting racemic D,L-amino acids during recrystallization: a hypothesis accounting for the origin of L-amino acids in the biosphere.
%A Kojo, S., Uchino H., Yoshimura, M., and Tanaka, K.
%J Chem. Commun.
%V XXXX
%P 2146-7
%D 2004
%R 10.1039/b409941a
%X When recrystallizations were performed using a mixture of 12 D,L-amino acids (alanine, aspartic acid, arginine, glutamic acid, glutamine, histidine, leucine, methionine, serine, valine, phenylalanine, and tyrosine) with excess D,L-asparagine, all amino acids with the same configuration as asparagine were preferentially co-crystallized, indicating that it is the nature of a mixture of racemic amino acids to produce a spontaneous high enantiomeric excess.