Homo- and heterochirality of dissymmetric tetrahedra (chiral simplices). Stereochemical tunneling

This paper examines the possibility of classifying chiral simplices into homochiral subclasses. It is shown that chiral simplices can skip achiral intermediates to be transformed into another type of homochiral moleucles (stereochemical tunneling). A. V. Bogatskii Physiochemical Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Translated fromZhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 873–878, September–October, 1995. Translated by L. Smolina