Quotes About Chirality

The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs.

Molecular chirality plays a key role in science and technology. In particular, life depends on molecular chirality in that many biological functions are inherently dissymmetric.

If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff.

To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there.

An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

Chiral receptor sites in the human body interact only with drug molecules having the proper absolute configuration, resulting in marked differences in the pharmacological activities of enantiomers.

The holy grail would be to turn a knob, and out comes the nanotube of the right diameter and chirality.

lost much. The thought of my body's chirality

Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image.