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10: Chirality
https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811240492_0010Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
Abstract:
The chirality (of Greek χείρ, ch[e]ir: hand) is a fundamental symmetry property of three-dimensional objects. Your two hands are not superimposable. They are mirror images of each other. They are therefore chiral (Figure 10.1). The chirality of your right hand can be seen by trying to put it in a glove for your left hand. The same can be seen by trying to put your left hand into a glove for your right hand. The same experience can be done while putting on shoes. Normally you are not comfortable after exchanging the shoe for the left foot with the one for the right foot…
Keywords:
- absolute configuration
- achiral
- α-amino acid
- asymmetric carbon
- asymmetric synthesis
- asymmetry
- axis of rotation
- biological homochirality
- Biot’s law
- Cahn–Ingold– Prelog priority rules
- chiral
- 2-deoxyribose
- deracemization
- dextrorotatory
- diastereomer
- enantiomer
- enantiomeric excess
- Fischer projection
- glyceraldehyde
- key-lock model
- lactic acid
- levogyre
- light polarization
- linearly polarized light
- optical activity
- polarimeter
- plane of symmetry
- potassium bitartrate
- quartz
- relative configuration
- ribose
- rotational power
- sorting (Pasteur)
- stereochemistry
- tartaric acid
- tetravalent tetrahedral carbon (Le Bel, van’t Hoff)
- three-dimensional structure
- wine tartar
