How to tell your left from your right amino acids

Written by Sarah Rogers for Chemistry World

Graphical Abstract

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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