sylla - 22-10-2007 at 07:28
Hi everyone,
I'm currently investigating the properties of achiral molecules that crystallize as chiral crystals. The problem is that it has been so far very hard
to establish a list of such compounds...
I have started with sodium chlorate and benzil (1,2-diphenylethanedione) and read about sodium bromate having similar properties (I still have to
confirm that one). After a few weeks of research I could hardly find anything new.
So I decided to ask the fellow scientists of scimad 
By any chance, does
anybody have heard about compound (organic or inorganic) having such properties ? Thx
jam640 - 22-10-2007 at 07:35
If you have access to Cambridge Structural Database you may do a search for compounds that crystallize in the chiral space groups. There are not an
enormous amount of conglomerates reported in a litteratue (the current estimate is that 5-10% of the organometallics/organics can behave this way),
but quite enough to keep you busy for a very long while. There have also been some pretty good review articles published on the matter in the past few
years although I don't have my references handy at the moment (but search for conglomerates in SciFinder and you will find them in a matter of
minutes).
EDIT: Found a few references in my paper stack. Linked below:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/10352570...
http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/CS/article.asp?doi=b6...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr60325a001
[Edited on 22-10-2007 by jam640]