Tracking the Chiral Recognition of Adsorbed Dipeptides at the Single‐Molecule Level

Abstract

Lights, camera, action! The general mechanism of biomolecular recognition introduced by Pauling more than 50 years ago has now been brought to the movie screen (see still frame; D: D-Phe-D-Phe, L: L-Phe-L-Phe). With STM movies, the chiral-recognition process of individual adsorbed di-phenylalanine molecules is followed to illustrate the dynamic induced-fit mechanism at the single-molecule level.