Mechanistic Inferences from Stereochemistry
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Mechanistic inferences from stereochemistry.
I am still impressed that the textbook language of organic chemistry is so successful in explaining the reactions that we find in nature. Thismight not have been anticipated because we find that biological reactions are invariably stereospecific whereas nonbiological reactions are invariably not. This realization came to light about 150 years ago when Pasteur found that only half of chemically ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biological Chemistry
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0021-9258
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.x600001200