From winter gloves and people with inverted organs to the effects of molecular mirror images. Chirality can be found everywhere, so it is high time to talk about it.
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Sources
Wikipedia entries on Chirality and Enantiomers
· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality
· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_%28chemistry%29
· https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chirality
· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiomer
· https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiomer
· https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiralit%C3%A4t_(Chemie)
Textbook Entries on Chirality
· General Chemistry by D. D. Ebbing 5th Ed. 1996 ISBN 0-395-74415-6; p. 1002ff
· Organic Chemistry by Clayden, Warren & Wothers; p. 382ff
Thalidomide and its effect on pregnant women
· https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomid
· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
About the people with inversed organs
· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus
· https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus
Origins of L-amino acids
Meteorite Theory (extraterrestrial influence)
· https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2667035/
· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_meteorite
Asymmetric Synthesis of Chirality
· https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11848967/
· https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959943603704878?via%3Dihub
· https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.200290005
