L. Lepori et B. Koppenhoefer, CHIRAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE LIQUID-PHASE - EXCESS VOLUMES OF BINARY-MIXTURES OF AMINO-ACID DERIVATIVES, Journal of physical chemistry, 98(27), 1994, pp. 6862-6864
Volume changes on mixing the enantiomers of N-trifluoroacetylamino aci
d methyl esters (N-TFA-amino acid-OMe) were determined at 25 degrees C
by means of a high-precision vibrating-tube densimeter. The excess mo
lar volumes (V-E) for the racemic mixtures of N-TFA-Ala-OMe 1, N-TFA-V
al-OMe 2, and N-TFA-Leu-OMe 3, were found as V-E = 0.0098, -0.0458, an
d 0.035 cm(3) mol(-1), respectively. For 2 and 3, these volumetric eff
ects of discriminating interactions between enantiomers in the liquid
phase are the largest ever observed.