Issue 47, 2012

On the abundance of chiral crystals

Abstract

A common perception of many chemists is that non-biological chiral crystals comprise a small fraction of all crystals, as is the case of chiral non-biological molecules (∼10%). We show that the proportion of non-biological chiral crystals is as high as 23%; and only ∼6% of these are labelled as chiral.

Graphical abstract: On the abundance of chiral crystals

  • This article is part of the themed collection: Chirality

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
09 Dec 2011
Accepted
16 Apr 2012
First published
19 Apr 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 5874-5876

On the abundance of chiral crystals

C. Dryzun and D. Avnir, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 5874 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC17727G

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