Desymmetrization and degree of chirality |
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Authors: | Thomas P. E. Auf der heyde Andrzej B. Buda Kurt Mislow |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, 08544 Princeton, NJ, USA |
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Abstract: | Chiral objects, viewed as distorted derivatives of achiral ones, may be represented by points in a configuration space that is spanned by a set of symmetry coordinates derived for the symmetry group of the achiral object of highest symmetry. We propose a measure (d) that quantifies the displacement of the representative point for a chiral object away from thenearest point representing an achiral object in such a multi-dimensional configuration space. If the symmetry coordinates are chosen so as to yield a similarity invariant measure, then the valuesd; obtained for a series ofi chiral objects can serve as a basis for comparing the degrees of chirality of these objects. The chirality of triangles inE2 is studied by this method, and it is shown that the most chiral triangle in terms of this measure corresponds to one that is infinitely flat, and that may be approached but is never attained. This result is compared to others obtained previously for the same system by the use of different measures of chirality.On leave from the Department of Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7530, South Africa. |
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