Most amino acids exist in two forms that are chemically identical but are mirror images of each other, like left and right hands. Left-handed amino acids play a key role in biological processes and are vital to life. It therefore makes sense to want to differentiate between left and right-handed versions.
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A universal strategy for visual chiral recognition of α-amino acids with L-tartaric acid-capped gold nanoparticles as colorimetric probes
Guoxin Song, Fulin Zhou, Chunli Xu and Baoxin Li
Analyst, 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5AN02434J
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