The Highlights article1 in a recent issue of Angewandte Chemie Intermational Edition concerns the induced chirality of an achiral solvent by a chiral solute determining the overall optical activity. I blogged on this in my last post. This Highlights article stressed (as I did) the novelty of this effect and the need for further experiments and computation. I am sure that more will come in this exciting area.
It is also interesting to me that Angewandte would feature in this way one of its own articles. Isn’t the fact that it was accepted and then published in the journal sufficient stamp of its novelty and importance? Can anyone say “nepotism”?
References
(1) Neugebauer, J., “Induced Chirality in Achiral Media – How Theory Unravels Mysterious Solvent Effects,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 46, 7738-7740, DOI: 10.1002/anie.200702858.
