Abstract

  It is shown that the optical activity of tartaric acid, discovered by Louis Pasteur, is associated with the different shapes of D-tartaric acid and L-tartaric acid molecules, which are polytopes in dimension 5. This differs significantly from Louis Pasteur's assumption about the relationship between optical activity and the shape of tartaric acid crystals in the three-dimension space.

Keywords: Molecule; Tartaric Acid; Optical Activity; Polarized Light; Dimension; Polytope; Symmetry

References

1. Zhizhin GV. “Attractors and Higher Dimensions in Population and Molecular Biology: Emerging Research and Opportunities”. Hershey PA, USA: IGI Global (2019).
2. Poincaré A. “Analysis situs”. J. de e` Ecole Polytechnique 1 (1895): 1-121.
3. Zhizhin GV. “The Geometry of Higher-Dimensional Polytopes”. Hershey PA, USA: IGI Global (2019).
4. Pasteur L. “Selected works”. Moscow: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1960).
5. Metzler DE. “Biochemistry. The Chemical Reactions of Living Cells”. New York, San Francisco, London: Academic Press (1977).
6. Lehninger AL. “Principe’s of Biochemistry”. Worth Publishers, Inc (1982).
7. Wood R. “Researches in physical optics”. Wentworth Press (1936).

Citation

Citation: Gennadiy Vladimirovich Zhizhin. “Enantiomorphism of Tartaric Acid as a Property of Five-Dimensional Polytopes". Acta Scientific Biotechnology 1.12 (2020): 21-24.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2020 Gennadiy Vladimirovich Zhizhin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.