Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Enantiomer-selective magnetization of conglomerates for quantitative chiral separation

  • Xichong Ye,
  • Jiaxi Cui,
  • Bowen Li,
  • Na Li,
  • Rong Wang,
  • Zijia Yan,
  • Junyan Tan,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Xinhua Wan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09997-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Despite significant development in selective crystallization of chiral compounds this method still lacks high efficiency. Here the authors describe an efficient enantiomer-selective magnetization strategy for quantitatively separating the crystals of conglomerates by using magnetic nano-splitters.