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Re: Chirality
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Fri, 9 Sep 2005 08:56:03 GMT
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Mark Bellis wrote:
In lugnet.build.schleim, Bryan Wong wrote:
In lugnet.build.schleim, Didier Enjary wrote:
LEGO and chirality

snip

Any thoughts ?

Your post reminds me of my painful memories of organic chemistry from
university... Never thought it could be applicable to things other than
molecules!  :)

-Bryan

I find that animals and plants make some of the most interesting MOCs.

There are families of plants whose leaves are chiral.  There's one particular
house plant that I can think of, but I can't remember its name.  I think some
types have leaves that appear to be biased all one way on the same plant.  I
wondered whether other similar plants have them biased the other way and whether
it is a genetic switch between the two directions.

I remember that Carroway and Mint are mirrored molecules, with four different
groups attached to one carbon atom.  I can't remember which is dextro- and which
is laevorotatory though).  It's all to do with how molecules fit with the
receptors in your nose!

This calls for a new Lego piece - one with four axle receptors at the corners of
a tetrahedron.

Mark

There are also some DNA models (chiral superstructure) in Brickshelf :

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=DNA&stype=dfic

Didier



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(...) I find that animals and plants make some of the most interesting MOCs. There are families of plants whose leaves are chiral. There's one particular house plant that I can think of, but I can't remember its name. I think some types have leaves (...) (19 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)

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