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Chirality transfer takes a jump

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The transfer of chirality is known to occur through chemical bonds. Now, chiral biomolecules have been observed to impart some of their optical properties to a spatially separated achiral dye — with the transfer mediated by plasmon resonance from an achiral metallic nanostructure.

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Figure 1: Transfer of chirality from a chiral analyte to an achiral reporter.

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  1. Vladimiro Mujica is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University, PO Box 871604, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, USA,

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Mujica, V. Chirality transfer takes a jump. Nature Chem 7, 543–544 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2294

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