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Mirror-Image Asymmetry: An Introduction to the Origin and Consequences of Chirality

James P. Riehl
ISBN: 978-0-470-38759-7
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272 pages
April 2010
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Preface.

List of Figures and Biographic Photographs.

1 The Mirror Image.

2 Molecular Chirality in Living Systems.

3 The Origin of Chirality of Living Systems.

4 Chiral Chemistry, Recognition, and Control in Living Systems.

5 Chirality and Drugs.

6 The Chirality of Living Systems.

7 The Handedness of Homo Sapiens.

8 Living in a Right-Hander's World.

9 The Asymmetric Universe.

List of Figures. 

Appendix.

Biography.

Index.

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