Chirality, magnetism and light

Laurence D. Barron ()
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Laurence D. Barron: Department of Chemistry University of Glasgow

Nature, 2000, vol. 405, issue 6789, 895-896

Abstract: The importance of left- and right-handedness in nature is such that scientists have often wondered about its origins. The first use of a magnetic field to bias a chemical reaction in favour of one mirror-image product provides a possible explanation.

Date: 2000
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