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Symmetry, Volume 3, Issue 1

2011 March - 6 articles

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Articles (6)

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
12,490 Views
42 Pages

Asymmetric Organocatalytic Reactions of α,β-Unsaturated Cyclic Ketones

  • Renato Dalpozzo,
  • Giuseppe Bartoli and
  • Giorgio Bencivenni

22 March 2011

The 1,4-conjugate addition of nucleophiles to α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds represents one fundamental bond-forming reaction in organic synthesis. The development of effective organocatalysts for the enantioselective conjugate addition of malona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,848 Views
18 Pages

21 March 2011

Much is already known about single mirror symmetry, but multiple mirror symmetry is still understood poorly. In particular, perceptually, multiple symmetry does not seem to behave as suggested by the number of symmetry axes alone. Here, theoretical i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
15,876 Views
17 Pages

1 March 2011

Although symmetry may be important for understanding the selection of form in art over the historical period, this preference may have originally stemmed from certain basic perceptual mechanism that initially arose during prehistory. The first signs...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,729 Views
21 Pages

14 February 2011

Among the symmetries in physics, the rotation symmetry is most familiar to us. It is known that the spherical harmonics serve useful purposes when the world is rotated. Squeeze transformations are also becoming more prominent in physics, particularly...

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