Early in the #evolution of life a biochemical network was encapsulated within a membrane compartment. This study shows that specific #membrane forms can select for stereochemical compounds that match the pattern of #stereochemistry used by all known living things @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4jdyLh1

What is the ethymology of the word stereochemistry? #ethymology #stereochemistry #chemistry

Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn
https://www.the-scientist.com/mirror-bacteria-research-poses-significant-risks-dozens-of-scientists-warn-72419
https://purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9158
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408361

* feasibility of creating mirror bacteria
* potentially serious/wide-ranging risks they could pose to humans, animals, plants, environment
* accompanies the Science Policy Forum article titled “Confronting risks of mirror life”,

#SyntheticBiology #MirrorLife #MirrorBacteria #biochemistry #stereochemistry #biopolymers

Mirror life (mirror bacteria)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_life

* mirror-image life
* hypothetical form of life w. mirror-reflected molecular building blocks
* e.g. bacteria made of components that natural cells possess, but w. every biopolymer being of opp. stereochemistry

Comments:
* fascinating stuff; huge potential
* coincident w. my post re: synthetic media: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113630612921903958
* here: synthetic biology

#SyntheticBiology #MirrorLife #MirrorBacteria #biochemistry #stereochemistry #biopolymers

#nyt #games needs an education in #polymer #stereochemistry

🎁HBT Jay S. Siegel who turns 65 today. At Princeton Univ. he developed a keen interest in #stereochemistry manifested in the co-authorship of the legendary JACS paper “La Coupe du Roi and its Relevance to Stereochemistry” (DOI: 10.1021/ja00344a003). Today he is Senior Advisor at the Univ. of Hong Kong. Aside from his stereochemistry expertise Jay is known for his #corannulene chemistry and for his contributions to #supramolecular science.

#KnowledgeByte: #Stereochemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the three-dimensional arrangement of atoms and molecules and the effect of this on chemical reactions.

One of it's most important application is drug design.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/5d3d4b046982d1000c7af42e

In this study, #AFIR is used to calculate #retrosynthetic, or reverse, reactions going from product #molecules to starting materials. Previously, AFIR has been used to predict small, simple reactions, but accurate #stereochemistry predictions were out of reach, limiting the technique’s applicability.
#Chemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/11/chm11302201.html

"Pasteur not only made milk safe to drink, he established the germ theory of disease, saved the French silkworm population, confronted the scourges of anthrax and rabies, and transformed the curiosity of vaccination against smallpox into a general strategy for treating and preventing human diseases."

Pasteur ranks behind only Darwin among the most exceptional biological scientists of the 19th century."

#LouisPasteur #Pasteur #Microbiology #Stereochemistry
#Bicentennial

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/louis-pasteur-transformed-health-disease-microbiology

My second toot to the #ChemiVerse
More reactions! Well, the same reaction as last week (if you were on Tw***er) but now with added #stereochemistry. This #SciViz summary introduces models for diastereoselective addition to C=O with α-stereocentre. There are many more models (& arguments) but hopefully useful.

Might be useful to start reposting the old 1 page summaries on this new (for me) platform?

Originals are at https://www.makingmolecules.com

#chemistry #ChemToots #SciViz #ChemEd