True and false chirality and parity violation

✍ Scribed by L.D. Barron

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 571 KB
• Volume: 123
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(86)80035-5

✦ Synopsis

Systems that exhtbit distingmshable enantiomers under space inversron are not necessarily chiral. A new definition of chirality is proposed that enables true and false chrrality to be distmguished. This definition is reinforced by a consideration of parity violation, which lifts only the degeneracy of the space-inverted enantromers of truly chrral systems.