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Chiral Matter - Proceedings Of The Nobel Symposium 167 (Hardcover)
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Chiral Matter - Proceedings Of The Nobel Symposium 167 (Hardcover)
Series: Proceedings Of Nobel Symposium - Physics, 0
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A geometric figure has chirality, or handedness, if its mirror
image cannot be brought to coincide with itself. The concept of
chirality was instrumental in establishing the tetrahedral valences
of the carbon atom, and has continued to play a key role in
chemistry and molecular biology ever since.The fact that living
organisms use only one of two mirror isomers of such molecules as
amino acids and sugars, that is, the question of the origin of
homochirality of the molecular basis of life, remains an unsolved
problem of the same dignity as the origin of dark matter and dark
energy.The increasing importance of chirality and topology in
condensed matter physics and chemistry, and the production of new
states of matter in heavy-ion collisions, have brought the concept
of chirality into physics and cosmology in a tangible way while at
the same time expanded the physics/chemistry interface. The book is
the first to address all aspects of chirality in a single volume.
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