Chirality publications: Experiments, computations, theory
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| 1989 - 1998 | |
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D. Avnir, E. Wellner and M. Ottolenghi "Photophysical Recognition of Chiral Surfaces", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 111, 2001-2003 (1989). |
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| 103. |
D. Avnir and A.Y. Meyer, "Quantifying the Degree of Molecular Shape. A Chirality Measure", J. Molec. Struct. (Theochem), 226, 211-222 (1991). 124. A.Y. Meyer and D. Avnir, "The Relation Between Molecular-Shape and Molecular Rotations in Chiral Halogenated Alkanes", Structural Chem., 2, 475-478 (1991). |
| 112. |
Y. Hel-Or, S. Peleg and D. Avnir "Two Dimensional Rotational Dynamic Chirality and a Chirality Scale", Langmuir, 6, 1691-1695 (1990). (Erratum, 10, 1633 (1994)). |
| 124. |
See paper 103.
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| 161. |
H. Zabrodsky and D. Avnir "Continuous Symmetry Measures, IV: Chirality" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 462-473 (1995). |
| 171. |
Y. Pinto, H. Zabrodsky Hel-Or and D. Avnir "Continuous Chirality Analysis of Interconversion Pathways of the Water-Trimer Enantiomers" J. Chem Soc. Faraday Trans., 92, 2523 - 2527 (1996) |
| 177. |
O. Katzenelson, H. Zabrodsky Hel-Or and D. Avnir "Chirality of Large Random Supramolecular Structures" Chemistry - A European J. , 2, 174 - 181 (1996) Highlight: CHEMTECH, July 1996, p. 4. |
| 185. |
D. Avnir, O. Katzenelson, S. Keinan, M. Pinsky, Y. Pinto, Y. Salomon and H. Zabrodsky Hel-Or "The Measurement of Symmetry and Chirality: Conceptual Aspects" in " Concepts in Chemistry", D. H. Rouvray , Ed., Research Studies Press, Somerset, 1997, Chapter 9, pp 283 - 324. |
| 186. |
D. Avnir, O. Katzenelson and H. Zabrodsky Hel-Or "Reply to “On the Definition of Chirality”: Further Comments on the Chirality of Large Random Objects" Chem. European J., 2, 744-746, (1996) |
| 187. |
S. Keinan, H. Zabrodsky Hel-Or and D. Avnir "How Much Chirality was there in Pasteur’s Tartrate? The Quantitative Evaluation of the Chirality of Crystals" Enantiomer, 1, 351-357 (1996) |
| 188. |
C. Rottman, G. S. Grader, Y. De Hazan and D. Avnir "Sol-Gel Entrapment of ET(30) in Ormosils. Interfacial Polarity - Fractality Correlation" Langmuir, 12, 5505-5508 (1996) (+ cover picture) |
| 189. |
L. Laby, L. C. Klein, A. Turniansky and D. Avnir "Synthesis of Low Temperature Alumina and Silica- Containing Alumina Xerogel Hosts" J. Sol-Gel Sci. Tech., 10, 177-184 (1997). |
| 190. |
D. A. Lidar (Hamburger), O. Biham and D. Avnir "Limited Range Fractality of Randomly Distributed Rods" J. Chem. Phys., 106, 10359 - 10367 (1997) http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9703133 |
| 191. |
D. Avnir, O. Biham, D. Lidar (Hamburger) and O. Malcai "On the Abundance of Fractals" in " Fractal Frontiers", M. M. Novak and T. G. Dewey, Ed’s, World Scientific, 1997, pp. 199-234.
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| 192. |
D. Avnir, L. C. Klein, D. Levy, U. Schubert and A. B. Wojcik "Organo-Silica Sol-Gel Materials" in "The Chemistry of Organosilicon Compounds" Vol. 2, Y. Apeloig and Z. Rappoport, Ed.’s, Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1998, chapter 40, pp. 2317- 2362. |
| 193. |
K. Ramanathan, D. Avnir. A. Modestov and O. Lev "Sol-Gel Derived Ormosil-Exfoliated Graphite-TiO2 Composite Floating Catalyst: Photodeposition of Copper" Chem. Mater., 9, 2533 - 2540, (1997) |
| 194. |
D. Shabat, F. Grynszpan, S. Saphier, A. Turniansky, D. Avnir and E. Keinan "An Efficient Sol-Gel Reactor for Antibody Catalyzed Transformations" Chem. Mater., 9, 2258 - 2260, (1997) |
| 198. |
Y. Pinto, Y. Salomon and D. Avnir "Properties and Classification of Enantiomerization Pathways" J. Math. Chem., 23, 13 -29 (1998) |
| 200. |
I. Saragusti, I. Sharon, O. Katzenelson and D. Avnir "Quantitative Analysis of the Symmetry of Artefacts: Lower Paleolithic Handaxes" J. Archeol. Sci., 25, 817-825 (1998) |
| 203. |
D. Avnir, H. Zabrodsky Hel-Or and P. G. Mezey "Symmetry and chirality: Continuous Symmetry Measures" in Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry, P. von Rague Schleyer, Editor-in-Chief, Wiley, Chichester, 4, 2890 - 2901 (1998) |
| 206. |
S. Keinan and D. Avnir "Quantitative Chirality in Structure-Activity Correlations. Shape Recognition by Trypsin, by the D2 Dopamine Receptor and by Cholinesterases" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 6152 - 6159 (1998) |
| 207. |
Y. Pinto, P. W. Fowler, D. Mitchell and D. Avnir "Continuous Chirality Analysis of Model Stone-Wales Rearrangements in Fullerenes" J. Phys. Chem., 102, 5776 - 5784 (1998) |
| 208. |
F. Gelman, D. Avnir, H. Schumann and J. Blum "Sol-Gel Entrapped Chiral Rhodium and Ruthenium Complexes as Recyclable Catalysts for Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Itaconic Acid" J. Molec. Catal., A: Chem., 146, 123 - 128 (1999) |
| 215. |
Y. Salomon and D. Avnir "Continuous Symmetry Measures: Finding the Closest C2 Symmetric Object or the Closest Reflection Symmetric Object Using Unit Quaternions" J. Comput. Chem., 20, 772 - 780 (1999). |
| 216. |
I. Saragusti, I. Sharon, O. Katzenelson and D. Avnir " Quantitative Analysis of Symmetry Artifacts" Symmetry: Culture and Science, 9 408 – 414 (1998; appeared in 2002). |
| 1999 - 2012 | |
| 223. |
O. Katzenelson and D. Avnir "Quantitative Chirality/Enantioselectivity Relations in Large Random Supramolecular Structures" Chem. Europ. J., 6, 1346 - 1354 (2000). |
| 228. |
Y. Pinto and D. Avnir "A Generalized Handedness Labeling Strategy: Addressing Latent Handedness in Chiral Structures" Enantiomer, 6, 211 –217 (2001). |
| 230. |
O. Katzenelson, J. Edelstein and D. Avnir "Quantitative chirality of helicenes" Tetrahedron-Asymmetry, 11, 2695 – 2704 (2000) |
| 239. |
S. Alvarez, M. Pinsky and D. Avnir "The Chirality of Homoleptic Hexacoordinated D3-Symmetric Complexes" Europ. J. Inorg, Chem., 1499 – 1503 (2001) |
| 242. |
S. Alvarez, M. Pinsky, M. Llunell and D. Avnir "Continuous Chirality Analysis of Hexacoordinated Tris-Chelated Metal Complexes" Crystal Eng., 4, , 179-200 (2001) |
| 250. |
K. B. Lipkowitz, S. Schefzick and D. Avnir "Enhancement of Enantiomeric Excess by Ligand Distortion" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 6710-6711 (2001) |
| 259. |
F. Gelman, J. Blum and D. Avnir "One-Pot Sequences of Reactions with Sol-Gel Entrapped Opposing Reagents: An Enzyme and Metal-Complex Catalysts" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, 14460 - 14463 (2002) |
| 260. |
D. Yogev-Einot and D. Avnir "Quantitative Symmetry and Chirality of the Molecular Building Blocks of Quartz" Chem. Mater. 15, 464 – 472 (2003) |
| 263. |
P. Alemany, S. Alvarez and D. Avnir "Theoretical Evidence of Persistent Chirality in D3 Homoleptic Hexacoordinated Complexes with Monodentate Ligands" Chemistry-Europ. J., 9, 1952 – 1957 (2003) |
| 264. |
S. Alvarez and D. Avnir "Continuous Chirality Measures of Tetracoordinated Bis-Chelate Metal Complexes" Dalton Trans., 562 – 569 (2003) |
| 267. |
S. Fireman-Shoresh, D. Avnir and S. Marx "General Method for Chiral Imprinting of Sol-Gel Thin Films Exhibiting Enantioselectivity" Chem. Mater., 15, 3607-3613 (2003) |
| 268. |
S. Alvarez, S. Schefzick, K. Lipkowitz and D. Avnir "Quantitative Chirality Analysis of Molecular Subunits of Bis(oxazoline)copper(ii) Complexes in Relation to Their Enantioselective Catalytic Activity" Chem. Eur. J., 9, 5832 - 5837 (2003) |
| 270. |
D. Yogev-Einot and D. Avnir "Pressure and temperature effects on the degree of symmetry and chirality of the molecular building blocks of low quartz" Acta Cryst. B60, 163–173 (2004) |
| 279. |
Sharon Fireman-Shoresh, Inna Popov, David Avnir and Sharon Marx "Enantioselective, Chirally Templated Sol-Gel Thin Films" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 2650-2655 (2005) |
| 280. |
Santiago Alvarez, Pere Alemany and David Avnir "Continuous Chirality Measures in Transition Metal Chemistry" Chem. Soc. Rev., 34, 313 - 326 (2005) (with cover picture). |
| 283. |
Sharon Fireman-Shoresh, Iva Turyan, Daniel Mandler, David Avnir and Sharon Marx "Chiral Electrochemical Recognition by Ultrathin Molecularly Imprinted Sol-Gel Films" Langmuir, 21, 7842 – 7847 (2005) |
| 290. |
Dina Yogev-Einot and David Avnir "The temperature-dependent optical activity of quartz: from Le Chaˆtelier to chirality measures" Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 17, 2723 – 2725 (2006) |
| 293. |
Sharon Fireman-Shoresh, Sharon Marx and David Avnir "Induction and Detection of Chirality in Doped Sol-Gel Materials: NMR and Circular Dichroism Studies" J. Mater. Chem., 17, 536 - 544 (2007) ("Hot Paper"); DOI: 10.1039/b612822j |
| 296. |
Hanna Behar-Levy, Oara Neumann Ron Naaman and David Avnir "Chirality induction in bulk gold and silver" Adv. Mater. 19, 1207–1211 (2007) |
| 298. |
Sharon Fireman-Shoresh, Sharon Marx and David Avnir "Enantioselective sol-gel materials obtained by either doping or imprinting with a chiral surfactant" Adv. Mater., 19, 2145 - 2150 (2007) |
| 300. |
Sharon Marx and David Avnir "The induction of chirality in sol-gel materials" Acc. Chem. Res., 40, 768 - 776 (2007) |
| 302. |
Dina Yogev-Einot, Mark Pinsky and David Avnir "Left/right handedness assignment to chiral tetrahedral AB4 structures" Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 18, 2295–2299 (2007) |
| 304. | Mark Pinsky, Chaim Dryzun, David Casanova, Pere Alemany and David Avnir "Analytical methods for calculating continuous symmetry measures and the chirality measure" J. Comut. Chem., 29, 2712 - 2721 (2008) |
| 305. | Lital Zalzberg and David Avnir "Biocompatible hybrid particles of poly(L-lactic acid)@silica" J. Sol-Gel Sci. Tech., 48, 47- 50 (2008) |
| 313. |
Ch. Dryzun, Y. Mastai, A. Shvalb and D. Avnir "Chiral silicate zeolites" J. Mater. Chem., 19, 2062 – 2069 (2009). Highlighted in Science, 323 (5919), 1266 (2009) |
| 314. |
L. Duran Pachon, I. Yosef, T. Markus, R. Naaman, D. Avnir and G. Rothenberg “Chiral Imprinting of Palladium with Cinchona Alkaloids” Nature-Chemistry, 1, 160 - 164 (2009). 310,317 Highlights:
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| 324. |
Amir Zayit, Mark Pinsky, Hadassah Elgavi, Chaim Dryzun and David Avnir “A web-site for calculating the degree of chirality” http://www.csm.huji.ac.il Chirality, 23: 17–23 (2011) |
| 326. |
Chaim Dryzun and David Avnir “Chirality Measures for Vectors, Matrices, Operators and Functions” ChemPhysChem, 12, 197 – 205 (2011) |
| 329. |
Chaim Dryzun, Amir Zait and David Avnir “Quantitative Symmetry and Chirality—A Fast Computational Algorithm for Large Structures: Proteins, Macromolecules, Nanotubes, and Unit Cells” J. Comput. Chem., 32, 2526 – 2538, (2011) |
| 335. |
Hadassah Elgavi, Christian Krekeler, Robert Berger and David Avnir “Chirality in Copper Nanoalloy Clusters” J. Phys. Chem. C, 116, 330–335 (2012) |
| 337. |
Chaim Dryzun and David Avnir “On the abundance of chiral crystals” Chem. Commun., 48, 5874–5876 (2012). DOI: 10.1039/c2cc17727g Highlight: Harriet Brewerton, Chem. World News, 15.5.12 http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2012/May/chiral-crystals-more-abundant-than-presumed.asp |
| 2013 - 2015 | |
| 341. |
Mark Pinsky, Amir Zait, Maayan Bonjack and David Avnir "Continuous symmetry analyses: Cnv and Dn measures of molecules, complexes and proteins" J. Comput. Chem., 34, 2–9 (2013). DOI: 10.1039/c2jm34032a |
| 343. |
David Avnir and Dirk Huylebrouck “On Left and Right: Chirality in Architecture” Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics, 15, 171-182 (2013). DOI 10.1007/s00004-013-0144-x |
| 361. |
Maayan Bonjack-Shterengartz and David Avnir “The near-symmetry of proteins” Proteins, 83, 722–734 (2015); DOI 10.1002/prot.24706 + Supplementary |
| 374. |
Hadassah Elgavi Sinai and David Avnir “Adsorption induced symmetry distortions in W@Au12 nanocluster, leading to enhanced hyperpolarizabilities” Israel J. Chem, 56, 1076 – 1081 (2016), DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201600082 Supporting information |
| 377. |
Pere Alemany, David Casanova, Santiago Alvarez, Chaim Dryzun, and David Avnir “Continuous Symmetry Measures: A New Tool in Quantum Chemistry” Reviews in Computational Chemistry, Volume 30, Abby L. Parrill and Kenneth B. Lipkowitz, Editors, Chapter 7, p. 289 – 352, Wiley, 2017 Google books |
| 381. |
Maayan Bonjack-Shterengartz and David Avnir “The enigma of the near-symmetry of proteins: Domain swapping” PLoS ONE, 12(7): e0180030 (2017), pp 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180030 Supporting information |
| 383. |
Yael Baruch-Shpigler, Huan Wang, Inbal Tuvi-Arad, and David Avnir “Chiral Ramachandran Plots I: Glycine” Biochemistry, 56 (42), pp 5635–5643 (2017)+ Supplementary, DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00525 |
| 384. |
Orit Cohen, Andrew J. Ferris, Raymond Adkins, Robert P. Lemieux, David Avnir, Dmitri Gelman and Charles Rosenblatt "Chiral organosilica particles and their use as inducers of conformational deracemization of liquid crystal phases" Chemical Physics Letters, 696, 112–118 (2018) + supplementary |
| 387. |
Amani Zoabi, Melvin G. Santiago, Dmitri Gelman, Charles Rosenblatt, David Avnir,and Raed Abu-Reziq “Chiral Polymeric Nanocapsules and Their Use for Conformational Deracemization of Liquid Crystals” J. Phys. Chem. C, 122, 17936−17941 (2018); DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b06005 |
| 388. |
Huan Wang, David Avnir and Inbal Tuvi-Arad “Chiral Ramachandran Plots II: General Trends and Protein Chirality Spectra” J. Phys. Chem. C, 57, 6395−6403 (2018), DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00974 + Supporting information |
| 393. |
Orit Cohen, Dmitri Gelman, David Avnir “Optical rotation kinetics study of the polycondensation of chiral sol-gel precursors” J. Sol-Gel Sci. Tech, 90, 149 – 154 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-018-4858-9 + Supplementary |
| 406. |
Ariela W. Kaspi-Kaneti, Jorge Barroso, Gabriel Merino, David Avnir, Ignacio L. Garzón and Inbal Tuvi-Arad “Head to Tail Distortion Wave Characterizes the Enantiomerization of Helicenes” J. Org. Chem., 85, 15415−15421 (2020) |
| 407. |
David Avnir “Critical review of chirality indicators of extraterrestrial life” New Astronomy Rev., 92, 101596 (2021) 8 pages |
| 410. |
Yael Baruch Shpigler and David Avnir “Entrapment of glucose oxidase within gold converts it to a general monosaccharide oxidase” Scientific Reports, 11, 10737 (10 pages) (2021) |
| 411. |
Tzuriel S. Metzger, Reema Siam, Yuval Kolodny, Naama Goren, Nir Sukenik, Shira Yochelis, Raed Abu-Reziq, David Avnir and Yossi Paltiel “Dynamic spin-controlled enantioselective catalytic chiral reactions” J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 12, 5469−5472 (2021) |
| 415. |
Yael Baruch‑Shpigler and David Avnir “Glucose oxidase converted into a general sugar‑oxidase” Sci. Rep., 12:10716, 2022 (10 pages) |
| 417. |
Efrat Shukrun Farrell, Reema Siam, May Yam Moshkovitz, David Avnir, Raed Abu- Reziq, Shlomo Magdassi “3D-printed complex-shaped chiral organosilica porous monoliths that display enantioselectivity” Additive Manufacturing, 60, 103265 (2022), 7 pages + supplementary |