title: On the abundance of chiral crystals.
abstract: A common perception of many chemists is that non-biological chiral crystals comprise a small fraction of all crystals, as is the case of chiral non-biological molecules (~10%). We show that the proportion of non-biological chiral crystals is as high as 23%; and only ~6% of these are labelled as chiral.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemistry and The Lise Meitner Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
authors.forename: Chaim
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dryzun
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Avnir
mesh_terms: D000641:Ammonia / Q000737:chemistry; D003460:Crystallization; D005466:Fluorocarbons / Q000737:chemistry; D005998:Glycine / Q000737:chemistry; D015394:Molecular Structure; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D005466:Fluorocarbons; D000641:Ammonia; D005998:Glycine