Determining chirality

A spectral route to determining chirality

Determining Amino Acid Chirality in the Supernova Neutrino Processing Model

A model is described that can be used to estimate the bulk polarization of large rotating meteoroids in the magnetic field of a neutron star. The results of this model are applicable to the Supernova Neutrino Amino Acid Processing model, which describes one possible way in which the amino acids, known in nearly all cases to exhibit supramolecular chirality, could have become enantiomeric.

Stegosaurus chirality

Introduction Most living things appear rather symmetrical: the external human form, for example, has a plane of mirror symmetry to good approximation. Snails, flounders, narwhals, crossbills, fiddler crabs and twining vines are members of the short but fascinating list of living things known instead to defy mirror symmetry by exhibiting exterior chirality. The study of this symmetry breaking li...

Chirality counts?

Baclofen is the P-chlorophenyl derivative of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) derivative with an antispasmodic action and is used as a central acting muscle relaxant. GABA is a suppressive neurotransmitter widely distributed in the peripheral and central nervous systems (1). Baclofen [3-(p-Chlorophenyl)4-aminobutanoic acid], is a GABA B agonist. Baclofen has both presynaptic and post synaptic act...

Geometrical approach to central molecular chirality: a chirality selection rule.

Chirality is of primary importance in many areas of chemistry and has been extensively investigated since its discovery. We introduce here a description of central chirality for tetrahedral molecules using a geometrical approach based on complex numbers. According to this representation, for a molecule having n chiral centers it is possible to define an "index of chirality chi." Consequently, a...