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Pasteur and chirality: A story of how serendipity favors the prepared minds
Author(s) -
Vantomme Ghislaine,
Crassous Jeanne
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chirality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.43
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1520-636X
pISSN - 0899-0042
DOI - 10.1002/chir.23349
Subject(s) - serendipity , chemistry , chirality (physics) , resolution (logic) , nanotechnology , epistemology , philosophy , artificial intelligence , chiral symmetry , physics , quantum mechanics , materials science , computer science , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark
During the XIXth century, France has been the theater of many discoveries in stereochemistry thanks to prestigious physicists, chemists, and crystallographers. Among them, Louis Pasteur is certainly the father of molecular chirality (the so‐called molecular dissymmetry), and because of the exceptionally favored conditions of his famous discovery on the resolution of tartrates, his findings have often been attributed to serendipity. But let us not forget that “in the fields of observation, chance only favors the prepared minds.”