DETERMINATION OF THE OPTICAL PURITY OF AMINO ACIDS BY COMPLEX FORMATION

5 January 1974

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Chemistry Letters

Vol. 3 (1) , 43-46
https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.1974.43

Abstract

A new method has been established to determine the optical purity of small amount of amino acids (alanine, valine, and leucine). The method utilizes the fact that when the optically active amino acid is dissolved in an alkaline solution of K[Co(baen)(gly)₂] complex, the mixed solution shows much larger optical rotation than that of the free amino acid in the visible region.

Keywords

AMINO ACIDS
OPTICAL PURITY
COMPLEX FORMATION
DETERMINATION

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