Frederick Charles Frank

This mathematician was having a conversation with a chemist colleague of his.

Actually, he was a theoretical physicist, Charles Frank from the University of Bristol.

And he developed a theoretical model to help try to understand the ingredients that you might need to allow this homochirality to occur.

All right.

The right-handed molecule can deliver no benefits or negative benefits, right? So in the 1960s, there was a horrible situation where a sedative was administered and there were birth defects of thousands of children because the wrong-handedness of the molecule was the active ingredient, and that led to a really big problem.

So anyway, this matters not just for chemistry but also for lots of different applications.

Charles Frank said there are three things that you need to do.

You need to have this catalyst and it needs to create an asymmetric reaction.