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Molecular chirality is one of the fundamental aspects of chemistry. Chirality properties of molecules have implications in a wide variety of subjects, ranging from the basic quantum mechanical properties of simple of a few atoms to molecular optical activity, asymmetric synthesis, systems and the folding pattern of proteins. Chirality, in both the geometrical and the topological sense, has also been the subject of investigations in various branches of mathematics. In particular, new developments in a branch of topology, called knot theory, as well as in various branches of discrete mathematics, have led to a novel perspective on the topological aspects of molecular chirality. Some of the mathematical advances have already found applications to the interpretation of new concepts in theoretical chemistry and mathematical chemistry, as well as to novel synthetic approaches leading to new molecules of exceptional structural properties. Some of the new developments in molecular chirality have been truly fundamental to the theoretical understanding and to the actual practice of many aspects of chemistry. The progress in this field has been very rapid, even accelerating in recent years, and a review appears more than justified. This book offers a selection of subjects covering some of the latest developments. Our primary aim is to clarify some of the basic concepts that are the most prone to misinterpretation and to provide brief introductions to some of those subjects that are expected to have further, important contributions to our understanding of molecular properties and chemical reactivity.
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reviewed New Developments in Molecular Chirality on September 24, 2018 New Developments in Molecular Chirality
Just some passages/quotes:
"Scientists have bought the reductionist mode of thinking as their guiding ideology. Yet this philosophy bears so little relationship to the reality within which scientists themselves operate. And it carries potential danger to the discourse of scientists with the rest of society.
I think the reality of understanding is the following: Every field of human knowledge or art develops its own complexity of questions... Much of what people call understanding is a discussion of questions in the context of the complexity or hierarchy or concepts which are developed within that field. If you wanted to deprecate this way of thinking, you would call it quasi-circular. I wouldn't deprecate it; I think this kind of understanding is quintessentially human and has led to great art and science.
There are vertical and horizontal ways of understanding. The vertical way is by reducing a phenomena to something deeper--classical reductionism. The horizontal way is by analyzing the phenomena within its own discipline and seeing its relationships to other concepts of equal complexity." 19
"The duality of benefit and potential harm is faced by real, fallible, ethical human beings in the context of any object in their environment." 199
"My second point of concern about chemical illiteracy returns me to democracy. Ignorance of chemistry poses a barrier to the democratic process. I believe deeply, as must be clear now, that "ordinary people" must be empowered to make decisions--on genetic engineering or on waste disposal sites, on dangerous and safe factories or on which addictive drugs should or should not be controlled. Citizens can call on experts to explain the advantages and disadvantages, the options, the benefits and risks. But experts do not have the mandate; the people and their representatives do. The people also have a responsibility--they need to learn enough chemistry to be able to resist the seductive words of, yes, chemical experts who can be assembled to support any nefarious activity you please." 228
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