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Nature Chemistry (17 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/nchem.78

Chirality: Handed over

Anne Pichon

The transmission of chirality in the solid state is still little understood. Non-flat, chiral materials have mainly been prepared in a racemic (or slightly enantiometrically biased) form, in which chirality was then incorporated through the use of templates or surfactants.