Advances in Biochirality - Couverture rigide

Zucchi, C.; Caglioti, L.; Palyi, Gyula

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0080434045 ISBN 13 : 9780080434049

Editeur : Elsevier Science Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Chirality is a fundamental, persistent, but often overlooked feature of all living organisms on the molecular level as well as on the macroscopic scale. The high degree of preference for only one of two possible mirror image forms in Nature, often called biological homochirality is a puzzling, and not yet fully understood, phenomenon.

This book covers biological homochirality from an interdisciplinary approach - contributions range from synthetic chemists, theoretical topologists and physicists, from palaeontologists and biologists to space scientists and representatives of the pharmaceutical and materials industries.

Topics covered include - theory of biochirality, origins of biochirality, autocatalysis with amplification of chirality, macroscopic (present) biochirality, fossil records of chiral organisms - paleochirality, extraterrestrial origin of chirality, exceptions to the rule of biological homochirality, D-amino acids, chemical transfer of chirality, PV effects, and polarised radiation chemistry.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Pályi is a Professor (Retired) of Chemistry of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Modena, Italy) and member of the (Italian) National Academy of Science as well as other Academies. He has authored and edited 5 books on chemistry, patents, and 250 publications cited more than 2000 times by other authors. He has been the chief organizer of the International Symposia on Biological Chirality (since 1998) and of the International Symposia on the Soai Reaction (since 2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Elsevier Science Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0080434045
• ISBN 13: 9780080434049
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 407
• Coordonnées du fabricant: ELSEVIER; https://www.elsevier.com/es-es; ; Mooswaldallee 6; Freiburg; 79108; Allemagne