Characterization of right-handed and lef
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Yaacov Hel-Or; Shmuel Peleg; David Avnir
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Article
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1991
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Elsevier Science
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Many natural shapes are chiral (or handed). Our hands, for example, have a right-hand version and a left-hand version, the two types being mirror images of each other. Molecules are also classified according to their chirality, which determines their chemical characteristics. Glucose, for example, i