In chemistry, the expression inherently chiral is used to categorize all molecules and complexes whose lack of symmetry does not originate from a classic stereogenic element, but is rather the consequence of the presence of a curvature in a structure that would be devoid of symmetry axes in any bidimensional representation [1]
The expression ‘‘inherently chiral’’ was first used by Boehmer to indicate calixarenes with XXYZ or WXYZ substitution patterns at the upper rim, and has been later extended to fullerenes with a chiral molecular framework, like C76, C78, and C84, non symmetric uranyl-salophen complexes and the protonated Schiff base of 11-cis-retinal, the chromophore of rhodopsin.
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References
- ^ ‘‘Inherent chirality’’ and curvature Dalla Cort A, Mandolini L, Pasquini C, Schiaffino L, New Journal of Chemistry 2004 28 1198-1199.
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