H/D isotope effect on enamtiomers: the case of Alanine

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In the current description of any molecular system based on the Schrodinger equation with a Hamiltonian accounting only for the electromagnetic forces, the structural properties of enantiomers should be perfectly mirror symmetric. A recent study on D-Alanine claims to have revealed dissimilarities in the structural properties of D-alanine compared with L-alanine. The fact that such a study was conducted only on the deuterated specie of one enantiomer without takinginto account the possibility of D/H exchange, give space to questions regarding the revealed dissimilarities. This proposal aims at investigating the H/D isotope effect on both enantiomers of alanine, using neutron diffraction (both powder and single-crystal) and in-situ Raman spectroscopy.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910621-2
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/103225284
Provenance
Creator Dr Silvia Capelli; Dr Dominic Fortes; Dr Matthias Gutmann
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-06-26T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-12-12T12:50:41Z