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Na Ji1, Yuen-Ron Shen

  • 1Department of Physics, University of California, and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

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まとめ

光学活性和周波数生成 (OA-SFG) は,溶液に溶けたアミノ酸の分子キラリティを成功裏に探査しました. この新しい方法は,円形の二重化 (CD) に似ており,分子構造に影響するキラルな混乱の洞察を明らかにします.

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