Mirror-image asymmetry
Subtitle: an introduction to the origin and consequences of chirality
By: by James P. Riehl.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780470387597
Subjects: Geometry in nature; Symmetry (Biology); Chirality; Random dynamical systems
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mirror image; title: Molecular chirality in living systems; title: The origin of chirality of living systems; title: Chiral chemistry, recognition and control; title: Chirality and drugs; title: The chirality of licing things; title: The handedness of homo sapiens; title: Living in a right-handers worlds; title: The asymmetric universe.