Croatica Chemica Acta, Vol. 69 No. 2, 1996.
Original scientific paper
A Commentary on the Topological Chirality and Achirality of Molecules
Kurt Mislow
; Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
Abstract
The concept of topological chirality is traced from its historic origins to its present-day connection to chemistry. In contrast to geometrical chirality, the topological chirality of molecules depends on models of bonding and is not directly tied to experimentally observable chirality phenomena. Nevertheless, studies dealing with the topological chirality and achirality of molecular graphs have played a significant role in an area where chemistry and topology intersect.
»Insofem sich die Sátze der Mathematik auf die Wirklichkeit beziehen, sind sie nicht sicher, und insofern sie sicher sind, beziehen sie sich nicht auf die Wirklichkeit«.
Albert Einstein (1921)
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Hrčak ID:
136668
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Publication date:
3.6.1996.
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