| Stereochemical terminology and its discontents. | |
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PMID: 11835555 Owner: NLM Status: PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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Scrutiny of the purported misuse of some current stereochemical terms shows that obsolescence and faulty syntax may be less of a problem than previously assumed. Furthermore, changes in stereochemical terminology over time are not always due to obsolescence or to novel developments in chemical technology; for example, technical developments played no role whatsoever in the semantic transmutations over time of the terms "diastereomer" and "pseudoasymmetry." Finally, definitions of many stereochemical terms acquire meaning only within a given context and therefore cannot always be easily formulated. A prime example is the definition of "chirality," the concept at the heart of stereochemistry and, not coincidentally, the name of the journal in which this essay appears in print. |
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Authors:
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Kurt Mislow |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Chirality Volume: 14 ISSN: 0899-0042 ISO Abbreviation: Chirality Publication Date: 2002 Feb-Mar |
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Created Date: 2002-02-08 Completed Date: 2002-04-23 Revised Date: 2003-11-03 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8914261 Medline TA: Chirality Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 126-34 Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright 2002 Wiley-Liss, Inc. |
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Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. kmislow@princeton.edu |
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