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Today there is a great role of technology in the field of
medical and drug development. And day by day technology is giving best and best
techniques and machines to doctors. So, let’s begin the topic.
Today, I will talk about chirality of molecule, why we
(druggists, doctors, etc) have to know about it. So first we have to understand
“what is chirality?”
Like our right and left hands some molecules also have its
mirror twins. However, they look very similar but their properties may be very
different. For example, our hands are very similar but we can not wear our
left-hand glove in our right-hand so, we can say that this is due to chirality
of our hands. Chirality of molecules plays very essential role in chemistry,
biology and drug development. We must have to know the chirality of molecules
because whether some molecules look very similar but if one can cure us then it
is quite possible that its mirror twin (enantiomer) can kill us. It is
extremely hard to tell opposite chiral until they interact with each other. And
to find the difference currently we are using light.
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Light is the fastest way to distinguish these chiral
molecules. However, ordinary light can not sense molecular handness (or
chirality) very perfect.
Researchers from Max Born Institute for non-linear optics
and short pulse spectroscopy (MBI), the Israel Institute of Technology
(Technion) and Technische Universitat Berlin have now shown how to generate and
characterize an entirely new type of light called ‘Synthetic Chiral Light’,
which identifies molecules handness exceptionally distinctly.
So, this is a very simple explanation about chirality and
description about new discovery. Thanks for coming and I hope you have enjoyed
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