Subject: DEGREE OF CHIRALITY

From: "E. Lewars" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 13:30:39 -0400 (EDT)

Hello,  This is in reply to a recent question s to whether one can speak of 
"degree of chirality", or whether it is an all-or-nothing property.
  There is a review paper in Angewandte Chemie, roughly 2 years ago, on
chirality. Specifically addressed is this matter.  Mislow has shown that
you _can_ speak meaningfullly of degree of chirality (Kurt Mislow).
  Intuitively, CHDTF is less chiral than CIBrClF. So it's not like being
alive or dead; indeed, with advances in medicine, death is becoming a matter of 
degree.
     E. Lewars
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