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Circular Dichroism of Amino Acids in the Vacuum-Ultraviolet Region†

  1. Prof. Dr. Uwe J. Meierhenrich1,
  2. Dr. Jean-Jacques Filippi2,
  3. Cornelia Meinert2,
  4. Dr. Jan Hendrik Bredehöft3,
  5. Dr. Jun-ichi Takahashi4,
  6. Dr. Laurent Nahon5,
  7. Dr. Nykola C. Jones6,
  8. Dr. Søren V. Hoffmann6

Article first published online: 15 SEP 2010

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201003877

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Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Volume 49, Issue 42, pages 7799–7802, October 11, 2010

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Meierhenrich, U. J., Filippi, J.-J., Meinert, C., Bredehöft, J. H., Takahashi, J.-i., Nahon, L., Jones, N. C. and Hoffmann, S. V. (2010), Circular Dichroism of Amino Acids in the Vacuum-Ultraviolet Region. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 49: 7799–7802. doi: 10.1002/anie.201003877

Author Information

  1. 1

    Laboratoire des Molécules Bioactives et des Arômes, UMR 6001 CNRS-UNSA, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Faculté des Sciences, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice (France), Fax: (+33) 4-9207-6151 http://www.unice.fr/lcmba/meierhenrich/

  2. 2

    LCMBA, UMR 6001 CNRS-UNSA, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France)

  3. 3

    Institute for Applied and Physical Chemistry, University of Bremen (Germany)

  4. 4

    NTT Microsystem Integration Laboratories, Atsugi 243-0198 (Japan)

  5. 5

    Synchrotron SOLEIL, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette (France)

  6. 6

    Institute for Storage Ring Facilities, Aarhus University (Denmark)

  1. †

    This work was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-07-BLAN-0293) and performed at the Institute for Storage Ring Facilities at Aarhus University. This project has received funding from the European Community’s Integrated Infrastructure Initiative Activity on Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Science (contract no. RII3-CT-2004-506008) and the European Community’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007–2013; grant no. 226716). We thank S. Azoulay, K. Breme, and R. Perriot for technical assistance, J.-P. Laugier for recording scanning electron micrographs, S. Pagnotta for recording electron diffraction spectra, and W.H.-P. Thiemann for discussions.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 8 OCT 2010
  2. Article first published online: 15 SEP 2010
  3. Manuscript Received: 25 JUN 2010

Funded by

  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche. Grant Number: ANR-07-BLAN-0293
  • European Community. Grant Number: 226716

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Keywords:

  • amino acids;
  • chirality;
  • circular dichroism;
  • circularly polarized light;
  • origins of life
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Extending CD spectroscopy: Strong circular dichroic (CD) transitions in amino acids were observed when CD spectroscopy was extended to the vacuum-ultraviolet spectral range between 140 and 190 nm (see picture). Here, proteinogenic amino acids show the same CD magnitude and the same sign, and circularly polarized light is thus capable of inducing enantiomeric excesses of the same handedness. Interestingly, typical “meteoritic” amino acids have different CD properties.

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