Molecular parity violation via comets?

Chirality

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 575-582

  Meierhenrich, Uwe ^b   Thiemann, Wolfram H P ^a   Rosenbauer, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

46P Wirtanen; Asymmetric synthesis; Chirality; Cyclodextrin; Enantiomer separation; Gas chromatography; Origin of optical activity

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMINE; ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OPTICAL ROTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIC MIXTURE; RADIATION;

ALCOHOLS; ANILINE COMPOUNDS; ASTRONOMY; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CHELATING AGENTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CYCLODEXTRINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0032797294     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-636X(1999)11:7<575::AID-CHIR10>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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