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Citation: Wang Wen-Qing, Sun Lin, Min Wei, Wang Zhe-Ming. A Debate on the Parity-Violating Energy Difference of D-and L-Alanine[J]. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica, ;2002, 18(10): 871-877. doi: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB20021002 shu

A Debate on the Parity-Violating Energy Difference of D-and L-Alanine

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Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering; 1State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, Peking University, Beijing　100871

Received Date: 29 January 2002
Available Online: 15 October 2002

The chiral purity of biochemical monomers——only L-amino acids are present in proteins and D-sugars in the DNA and RNA of living organisms——is today accepted as an absolute necessity for the existence of life. All previous studies on amino acids reported the naturally occurring L-form to be stabilized by weak neutral currents. Two recent papers dealing with electro weak quantum calculations of the parity-violating energy shifts of alanine in gaseous phase and in solution have defied this long held belief. The parity-violating energy difference (PVED) of D- and L-alanine was undertaken as a function of the dihedral angle θ of the carboxylate plane with respect to the Cα-Hα plane. Dihedral angles was calculated from the atomic coordinates of O(1)O(2)C(1)C(2)H(4) of D- and L-alanine under the temperature dependence of X-ray diffraction data. According to Quack’s theoretical results by means of highest level ab initio studies (MC-LR), the ΔEPV value is 1.2×10－19 Hartree (3.3×10－18 eV/ molecule), namely L-alanine is more stable than D-alanine. The present paper proved definitely that in the single crystal state L-alanine is lower in energy than D-alanine both by X-ray diffraction data and the differential scanning calorimetry.
- Parity-violating energy difference;D- and L-alanine;Dihedral angle;　Second order phase transition;X-ray diffraction
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