Ep. 5: Applications and developments of chiroptical methods in analysis of organic, organometallic compounds and oligomers

Have you ever noticed that the left hand is a mirror image of the right hand? And that, at the same time, they cannot be superimposed onto each other because the thumbs will always be pointed in the opposite directions? Our hands are closely related to each other but they are not the same. This is because of chirality, i.e., nonidentity of an object with its mirror image. We also observe the same feature in the microworld – most of the essential compounds in living organisms are chiral. This means they exist only in a single form among two or more viable options.

Two projects dedicated to the applications and development of chiroptical methods by Dr. Marcin Górecki were carried out at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Pisa in the Group CD@Pisa of Prof. Lorenzo Di Bari and Prof. Gennaro Pescitelli.

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