Magnetic field-induced enantiomeric

Rikken and Raupach used the MChD effect to favour the production of one enantiomer over the other in the photochemical racemization of the complex [Cr(C204)3]K3. However, the enantiomeric excess obtained as a function of the wavelength of the incident light was very low ee from —1.10 " to 0.5.10 " ), even for a magnetic field as strong as 7.5 T. This phenomenon was predicted by Barron in a provocative article entitled Can a magnetic field induce asymmetric synthesis . 

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