“…It is also the most basic of the natural aminoacids, since it contains a terminal guanidyl group, in addition to the aamino group. It can easily form salts through the reaction with acids, such as phosphoric, hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acids [1], which generally crystallize in non-centrosymmetric space groups, such as P2 1 2 1 2 1 , P2 1 or P1 [1][2][3], due to the presence of the chiral carbon atom. These properties make L-arginine a natural candidate for the development of new materials since chirality plays an ever increasing role in various fields, namely catalysis, where chiral selectivity is a major goal, biomedical applications, where many biological activities involve chiral selectivity, and in materials science, where the development of accentric materials is a requirement for some optical applications.…”