A racemic mixture of tartaric acid forms mirror-image domains with equal propensity when adsorbed on a copper surface. When one enantiomer is present in a slight excess, however, only ordered domains comprising the major isomer are formed.
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Baddeley, C. Giving surfaces a hand. Nature Chem 1, 345–346 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.307
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