Pasteur and chirality: A story of how serendipity favors the prepared minds.
Journal
Chirality
ISSN: 1520-636X
Titre abrégé: Chirality
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8914261
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2021
10 2021
Historique:
revised:
21
07
2021
received:
09
06
2021
accepted:
23
07
2021
pubmed:
8
8
2021
medline:
8
8
2021
entrez:
7
8
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
During the XIXth century, France has been the theater of many discoveries in stereochemistry thanks to prestigious physicists, chemists, and crystallographers. Among them, Louis Pasteur is certainly the father of molecular chirality (the so-called molecular dissymmetry), and because of the exceptionally favored conditions of his famous discovery on the resolution of tartrates, his findings have often been attributed to serendipity. But let us not forget that "in the fields of observation, chance only favors the prepared minds."
Identifiants
pubmed: 34363261
doi: 10.1002/chir.23349
pmc: PMC9291139
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
597-601Subventions
Organisme : European Commission Research Executive Agency
ID : 859752-HEL4CHIROLED-H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019
Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Chirality published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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