Shining circularly polarized light into a suspension of racemic amino-acid-derivative crystals in a saturated solution and then grinding them results in enantiomerically pure crystals. This evolution is shown to be directed by an unknown chiral product.
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Fletcher, S. Growing the seeds of homochirality. Nature Chem 1, 692–693 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.455
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