Prof. Ernst Rank and the TUM-IAS team invite the scientists of TUM and their guests for coffee each Wednesday! Just come over to the TUM-IAS after lunch between 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. and have a coffee with us, meet other scientists and listen from time to time to a short talk (10-15 mins) on a recent major TUM publication or issue – aimed specifically at a non-expert audience.
On May 15 2019, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bach (Organic Chemistry 1) will talk about “Deracemization - The Vanished Mirror Image”. Enantiomeric molecules resemble each other like right and left hands. Both variants normally arise in chemical reactions. But frequently only one of the two forms is effectual in biology and medicine. Hitherto, completely converting this mixture into the desired enantiomer was deemed impossible. Deploying a photochemical method, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now achieved this feat (TUM press release).
Relevant Publication:
Catalytic deracemisation of chiral allenes enabled by sensitised excitation with visible light. Alena Hölzl-Hobmeier, Andreas Bauer, Alexandre Vieira Silva, Stefan M. Huber, Christoph Bannwarth, Thorsten Bach. Nature, 564, 240–243 (2018) – DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0755-1.
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