Equilibration and Racemization of Sulphoxides.

Racemization and epimerization.

In recent reports (I ) the term racemization is used inappropriately. It is stated in both reports that Lisoleucine racemizes to D-alloisoleucine. This reaction is epimerization, not racemization. Racemization of L-iSOleucine results in the formation of DLisoleucine. As stated in Eliel (2): "'racemization is the process of producing a racemic modification starting with one of the pure enantiome...

Amino Acid Racemization

Racemization of Meteoritic Amino Acids

Meteorites may have contributed amino acids to the prebiotic Earth, affecting the global ratio of right-handed to left-handed (D/ L) molecules. We calculate D/ L ratios for seven biological, α-hydrogen, protein amino acids over a variety of plausible parent body thermal histories, based on meteorite evidence and asteroid modeling. We show that amino acids in meteorites do not necessarily underg...

Racemization of lysine by a pseudomonad.

The recent paper by Huang and Davisson (J. Bacteriol., 76, 495, 1958) on the distribution of lysine racemase in bacteria reports its occurrence in only a few species of Escherichia and Proteus. Various other bacteria including 22 strains of various genera of the Pseudomonadaceae did not possess such activity. I wish to report evidence for the occurrence of lysine racemase activity in a Pseudomo...

Chiroptical properties and the racemization of pyrene and tetrathiafulvalene-substituted allene: substitution and solvent effects on racemization in tetrathiafulvalenylallene.

Dissymmetric 1,3-diphenylallene derivative 3 connected with 4,5-bis(methyl-thio)tetrathiafulvalenyl and 1-pyrenyl substituents was prepared and characterized. The molecular structure was determined by X-ray crystallographic analysis. Optical resolution was accomplished using a recycling chiral HPLC, and its chiroptical properties were examined with optical rotation and electronic circular dichr...