WHAT IS CHIRALITY (CHEMICALLY CORRECT)?
Louis Pasteur discovered chirality in 1848 while studying tartaric acid in wine. He discovered two tartaric acids, one the mirror image of the other, just like our hands. The Noble Prize was presented for discovering that the body and the body’s receptors are all chiral. Chemicals, which are chirally correct, are like gloves made to fit only over the correct hand, which in the body’s case are the chiral receptors. The body and most molecules in life and for the skin are chiral. For example, ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) is chiral. It exists as L-ascorbic acid and D-ascorbic acid. L-ascorbic acid is good for the body; D-ascorbic acid causes disease. The L means ‘Ievo’ (left) and the D means ‘dextro’ (right) also called left-handed and right-handed molecules. Chiral molecules are exactly the same in every way except like your hands; they are perfect mirror images of each other. So they are also exact opposites. An example is amino acids. Our body uses only left-handed amino acids. Right-hand
