Chiral molecules research background

Scientists who joined the Polymer Research Institute at Brooklyn Polytechnic were encouraged by Herman Mark to carry out research in areas they might have been familiar with in their studies of small molecules. Professor Mark knew from his scientific experience that there existed no boundaries between the principles of the science that depended on molecular size. In 1980 therefore when I first met him on joining Polytech he asked about my background and, on discovering that I had an interest in stereochemistry and chirality, he suggested that I look at the stereochemical properties of the vinyl polymers. This led me to read the work of two... 

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