Henri B. Kagan’s discovery allowed for the generation of safer and more effective single-handed molecules, which are important in pharmaceuticals, as drugs with the incorrect mirror image can be toxic or inactive. His work further offered a mathematical basis for a possible explanation of handedness observed among essential molecules of life (e.g., left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugar molecules).
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