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Absolute structuredetermination, 53

a-pinene, 27Astbury, W. T., 44Asymmetry, definition, 7Autocatalysis, 74, 76

Bijvoet, J. M., 44, 46, 50Binaphthyl 1,10-, 74Biot, Jean Baptiste, 27–29, 38, 40Biot’s Law, 35Branson, Robert, 46

Cahn-Ingold-Prelog (CIP)nomenclature, 14

Carrol, Lewis, 63Cheese, 63Chirality, definition, 3Cinchonidine, 41Circular dichroism (CD), 53Circularly polarized light, 32–33, 66, 76Circularly polarized luminescence

(CPL), 54Co(CN)2(NH3)2(H2O)2]

þ , 21Comet 67/P Churyumov-

Greasimenko, 68–69Coordination Theory, 20Corey, Robert, 46, 51Coriolis force, 77Cream of tartar, 38Crick, Francis, 51

D-amino acids, 63Dextrorotatory, 34D-glucose, 48–50Diastereomers, 42Dissymmetry, definition, 7, 11D-mannose, 50DNA, 22, 51DNA, double helix, 52DNA, left-handed, 23

Fermentation, 44Fischer, Emil, 16–17, 44–46, 50Fresnel, Augustin, 30–31

Gardner, Martin, 70Glyceraldehyde, 17

Handed, right -andleft-, 2

Helix, 22, 46, 48Homochirality, 63Hubble telescope, 67Huggins, M. L., 47

Isomers, definition, 20

L-Amino acids, 18, 46Le Bel, Joseph-Achille, 11, 48Levorotatory, 34Limonene, 27Lord Kelvin, 4

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Miller, Stanley, 64Murchison meteorite, 65–66

Narcissus, 1

Octahedral symmetry, 19Optical rotation, 16–17, 27, 30, 38, 53

Pasteur, Louis, 36–37, 40Pauling, Linus, 46–47, 51Peerdeman, A. F., 44, 46, 50Penicillium, 43Perkin, W. H., 44Philae lander, 68–69Politics, right-wing and

left-wing, 3

Quartz, 34, 36Quinine, 42

Racemic acid, 38Racemic mixture, definition, 39Racemization, 41Resolution, 43RNA, 51Rosetta spacecraft, 68–69

Screw, right handed, 10Screws, 10, 61Specific rotation,

definition, 35Stereochemistry, 19Sugars, 48Symmetry elements, 5

Tartaric acid, 39Tetrahedral symmetry, 11Trantner, G., 72Turpentine, 29

Urey, Harold, 64

Van’t Hof, Jacobus Henricus, 11, 13Vibrational CD (VCD), 54Von Bommel, A. K., 44, 46, 50

Watson, James, 51Werner, Alfred, 19–21Wright brothers, 9Wu, Chien-Shiung, 70

X-ray diffraction, singlecrystal, 54

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