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Cover Picture: Large Parity‐Violation Effects in Heavy‐Metal‐Containing Chiral Compounds (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 11/2003)
Author(s) -
Schwerdtfeger Peter,
Gierlich Johannes,
Bollwein Tobias
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200390312
Subject(s) - parity (physics) , cover (algebra) , spectroscopy , reflection symmetry , physics , optics , particle physics , geometry , astronomy , mathematics , engineering , mechanical engineering
What you see is not always what you get. The cover picture shows Lake Matheson in New Zealand, famous for its reflections of Mt. Cook and Mt. Tasman, where the still waters can make it difficult to tell the mountains from their reflection. Mirror‐image symmetry can break down in the microscopic world (parity violation), and high‐resolution spectroscopy cannot distinguish between molecular enantiomers. The [(C 5 H 5 )Re(CO)(NO)I] molecule gives very large parity‐violation energy differences that bring us closer to detecting such tiny effects. More details of this study are given in the Communication by P. Schwerdtfeger et al. on page 1293ff.