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- noun The branch of chemistry that deals with spatial arrangements of atoms in molecules and the effects of these arrangements on the chemical and physical properties of substances.
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- noun chemistry, uncountable the branch of
chemistry that involves thespatial arrangement of theatoms ofmolecules , and studies how this affects thephysical andchemical properties of such species - noun chemistry, countable the effect of such spatial arrangement on the
chemistry of a particular compound
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Examples
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Increasingly, however, his work began to reflect a deeply held interest in stereochemistry of plant pigments, especially polyenes.
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010
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The affinities acheived by virtue of its stereochemistry is not a given, because the stereochemistry of the nucleotide could have been different.
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As E.L. Eliel pointed out, stereochemistry is not so much a branch of chemistry but rather a way of looking at chemistry.
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According to a prominent fellow scientist, your paper represents the first real advance in stereochemistry since the theory of Van 't Hoffand Le
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Not only can a compound have more than one geometric form, but chemical reactions can also have specificity in their stereochemistry, thereby forming a product with a particular three-dimensional arrangement of the atoms.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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Prelog of ETH in Zürich was also based on research in stereochemistry.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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In each of the 19 pathways for the generation of chiral amino acids, the stereochemistry at the α-carbon atom is established by a transamination reaction that involves pyridoxal phosphate.
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Hoffmann formulated in 1965, together with Robert B. Woodward (see Section 3.8), rules based on the conservation of orbital symmetry, for the reactivity and stereochemistry in chemical reactions.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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This thread is about stereochemistry and Art/Yarus/Meyer on codon-amino acid relationships.
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It's right there, Meyers says the words "genetic code" and talks about the codon-amino acid correspondence, and asserts (wrongly, as Art/Yarus show) that stereochemistry can't explain it.
chained_bear commented on the word stereochemistry
"For in biology, especially at the cellular and molecular levels, nearly all activity depends ultimately upon form, upon physical structure—upon what is called 'stereochemistry.'"
—John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 100
February 11, 2009