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Communicating chirality

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Conformational control can be used to transmit information in the form of chirality over relatively long molecular distances and could be the key to the preparation of minimalistic synthetic mimics of biological systems.

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Figure 1: Stereochemical induction in an iron(II) complex.
Figure 2: Amplification of chirality in a cobalt(II) complex.

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