Turinese stereochemistry: Eligio Perucca's enantioselectivity and Primo Levi's asymmetry

Bart Kahr; Yonghong Bing; Werner Kaminsky; Davide Viterbo

doi:10.1002/anie.200801840

Turinese stereochemistry: Eligio Perucca's enantioselectivity and Primo Levi's asymmetry

Bart Kahr, Yonghong Bing, Werner Kaminsky, Davide Viterbo

Chemistry

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Abstract

A reputation restored: Eligio Perucca (see photo) first observed the enantioselective adsorption of a racemic mixture to a chiral crystal (NaClO ₃) in Turin in 1919. However, this milestone in enantioselective chemistry and chiroptics went unnoticed. Identified previously as a coward who refused in 1941 to supervise the research of the budding stereochemist Primo Levi because of the race laws, Perucca was opposed to the fascist regime.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3744-3748
Number of pages	5
Journal	Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume	48
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200801840
State	Published - May 11 2009

Keywords

Chirality
Circular dichroism
Dyes/pigments
Enantioselectivity
Optical rotatory dispersion

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Catalysis
General Chemistry

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