Chirality and Symmetry in Stereochemistry
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 3847
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chemistry; pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics; biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology; chemical engineering; materials science; physics and astronomy; immunology and microbiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The different orientations of atoms of molecules in the three-dimensional (3D) orientation in space create plenty of exiting molecular structures and generates the subject of stereochemistry. Stereochemistry spans the entire spectrum of chemistry disciplines, from traditional organic, inorganic, physical chemistry, and biochemistry, to sub-branches, such as supramolecular, organometallic, medicinal, and material chemistry, and also other scientific disciplines.
An extremely important chapter of stereochemistry is chirality. The term chiral is applied to molecules whose asymmetry results in handedness, that is, the existence of a pair of non-superimposable mirror-image shapes as illustrated by the relationship between one's right and left hands. A very important consequence of chirality is that it influences the functional properties of molecules in an enormous way, not only in chemistry and biology, but in mathematics, physics, materials, etc.
The history of chirality began with Louis Pasteur’s discovery of molecular chirality by the separation of chiral crystals of tartaric acid and observing the rotatory effect of enantiomers on a plane of polarised light in 1848. In 2003, the Journal Chemical and Engineering News (2003, 81, 34, 27–30), reported the results of a survey of the journal's readers on ‘‘the most beautiful experiments in the history of chemistry’’. First place was given to Louis Pasteur's manual separation of tartrate enantiomers. William Thompson and Lord Kelvin coined the term "chirality" in 1884.
Recent years have seen an extraordinary development of experimental and theoretical frameworks to study various aspects of chirality. Wide-ranging chiral asymmetry in nature has given rise to a multi-disciplinary interest in chirality.
This Special Issue of Symmetry features articles on chirality in a very extensive stereochemistry field covering both. We are inviting contributions on a broad range of topics across numerous disciplinary boundaries including the following: synthesis and application of chiral molecules and materials; supramolecular chirality; chirality of natural products and in biomolecules for pharmaceutical and agricultural chemistry; development of new and novel applications of known instrumental methods in stereochemistry and chirality, and other comprehensive dimensions in the field without many disciplinary limitations focusing on originality and novelty.
Submit your paper and select the Journal “Symmetry” and the Special Issue “Chirality and Symmetry in Stereochemistry” via: MDPI submission system. Our papers will be published on a rolling basis and we will be pleased to receive your submission once you have finished it.
Prof. Dr. Eugenijus Butkus
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Chirality and symmetry
- Chiral architectures
- Stereochemistry applications
- Stereosynthesis
- Stereochemistry foresight
