Irradiating chiral molecules with light can encourage them to interconvert between their mirror-images (IMAGE)

Tokyo University of Science

Irradiating chiral molecules with light can encourage them to interconvert between their mirror-images

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The easy conversion of sulfoxides between their mirror images is now possible thanks to a photosensitizer called TPT, which donates an electron in the presence of light to help catalyze racemization

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