linkedin post 2015-08-19 04:31:53

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"DRUG CHIRALITY is critical for therapeutic potency and efficacy, and there are over 2,500 chiral drugs. For example, only one form of dopamine is effective in treating Parkinson's disease, the other causes granulocytopenia. Only one form of thalidomide alleviates morning sickness, while the other form causes birth defects." https://lnkd.in/eqzkdcz View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2015-08-19 04:26:30

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PHARMA RACEMATES. "About 25% of common drugs are racemates, i.e., mixtures of their optical or spatial isomers (stereoisomers or enantiomers). The currently available evidence suggests that for the enantiomers of many chiral drugs there are clear functional differences between the constituent enantiomers and the racemate." https://lnkd.in/ef9kgYu View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2015-08-20 05:37:39

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D-AMINO ACIDS IN METEORITES. "Murchison contains common amino acids such as glycine, alanine and glutamic acid as well as unusual ones like isovaline and pseudoleucine. A complex mixture of alkanes was isolated as well, similar to that found in the Miller–Urey experiment." https://lnkd.in/e6T2vir View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2015-08-18 04:54:00

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ENANTIOMERS are opposite chiral pairs, one left- and the other right-handed. "The most surprising phenomena in the perception of smell are connected with optical isomerism...chiral differentiation was also considered one of the primary principles of smell perception...enantiomers may differ in aroma." https://lnkd.in/enRqV7d View in LinkedIn
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