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dc.contributor.authorRohl, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorKahr, B.
dc.contributor.authorChittenden, B.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:58:53Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:58:53Z
dc.date.created2008-11-12T23:25:04Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationRohl, Andrew and Kahr, Bart and Chittenden, Brianne. 2006. Robert Boyle's Chiral Crystal Chemistry: Computational Re-evaluation of Enantioselective Adsorption on Quartz. Chirality 18 (2): 127-133.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7293
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/chir.20229
dc.description.abstract

While searching for early examples of interactions of organic chromophores with minerals in the context of a systematic study of the process of dyeing crystals, we came across Robert Boyle's description of an experiment that may have been evidence of the enantioselective adsorption of a natural product, carminic acid (7-b-D-glucopyranosyl-9,10-dihydro-3,5,6,8-tetrahydroxy-1-methyl-9,10-dioxo-2-anthracenecarboxylic acid), to the chiral surfaces of a-quartz, three centuries before such interactions became the subject of active chemical investigations. In order to determine whether Boyle did indeed observe enantioselective adsorption--albeit unbeknownst to him--we attempted to dye quartz with carminic acid according to his recipe. Quartz adsorbs carminic acid only because on heating it develops a network of microfissures that adsorb dye. This process depends on capillarity, not on specific non-covalent interactions;there is no evidence of enantioselectivity adsorption to heated crystals or enantioselective epitaxy to unheated crystals. These failures changed the focus of our inquiry: Why have almost all attempts to demonstrate the enantioselective adsorption of additives to quartz crystal surfaces been generally confounding and equivocal? In order to answer this question, we complement our experimental historical re-investigation with contemporary computational techniques for modeling crystal surface structure and the adsorption of additives. Minimizations of the energies associated with the adsorption of carminic acid to relaxed, hydrated d-and l-quartz {1010} surfaces are analyzed in light of quartz's abysmal record as an enantioselective stationary phase.

dc.publisherWiley-Liss
dc.subjectcarminic acid
dc.subjectRobert Boyle
dc.subjectcochineal
dc.subjectenantioselective adsorption
dc.subjectquartz
dc.titleRobert Boyle's Chiral Crystal Chemistry: Computational Re-evaluation of Enantioselective Adsorption on Quartz
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume18
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage127
dcterms.source.endPage133
dcterms.source.titleChirality
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Chirality is available online at Wiley Interscience

curtin.identifierEPR-891
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available
curtin.facultyDepartment of Applied Chemistry
curtin.facultyDivision of Engineering, Science and Computing
curtin.facultyFaculty of Science


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