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Chirality - From Weak Bosons to the ?-Helix (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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Chirality - From Weak Bosons to the ?-Helix (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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Les hypotheses, n'en deplaise a mon contradicteur, sont l'ame des
progres de la science. Louis Pasteur The concept of chirality,
established 100 years ago, plays an im- portant role in almost all
domains and dimensions of our recent scientific view of life.
Chiral properties can be found in fundamen- tal nuclear particles,
in molecules, and in the macroscopic world of living nature (plants
and animals) and inanimate nature (crystals). In particular,
chirality, or more precisely chiral excess, is evident in human
beings. For example, the expected symmetry of the hands turns out
to be functionally non-existent. Consequently chirality occurs in
the technical sphere, where screws are the best-known examples,
since most of them are made for right-handed people. Chirality is
not confined to static objects but influences processes such as
chemical reactions. The occurrence of chiral objects on different
dimensional scales has been treated in the past in mutually
independent frameworks. There were, however, two remarkable events
from which the conclu- sion can be drawn that the appearance of
chirality in various fields has a common cause. On the one hand,
physicists found evidence that the well-known biomolecular
homochirality can be traced back to the chirality of weak bosons.
At the same time, on the other hand, the so-called thalidomide
tragedy occurred when thalido- mide molecules of a certain
chirality, taken by pregnant women, caused deformed children.
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