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helix sense
The right-handed sense of a helix traces out a clockwise rotation moving away from the observer; the left-handed sense of a helix traces out a counterclockwise rotation moving away from the observer, e.g. the ...Math - textMath - textMath - text ... helix of isotactic poly(propylene) is left-handed.
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Purple Book, p. 43
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A.Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8. doi:10.1351/goldbook.
Last update: 2008-10-07; version: 2.0.2.
DOI of this term: doi:10.1351/goldbook.H02771.
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