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From: Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in early molecular networks

Figure 1

The number of possible chiral (solid) and non-chiral (dashed) isomers as a function of the number of carbons in an Alkane. Red represents a case where one carbon is replaced by a hetero atom, and blue denotes a case of no hetero atom. Data is taken from [54]. This figure demonstrates that for sufficiently complex molecular structures it is a good approximation to assume that all molecules are chiral [51–55].

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