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What is Functional (Topological) Dimension of a Molecule

Chapter 6
Attractors and Higher Dimensions in Population and Molecular Biology: Emerging Research and Opportunities
The dimension of a convex polytope, as a model of a molecule, at the vertices of which not only individual atoms but also functional groups of the molecule can be located.
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Functional Dimensions of Biomolecules
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9651-6.ch006
Abstract
New structures of biomolecules have been constructed: carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids. It is shown that glucose molecules and ribose molecules have dimensions of 15 and 12, respectively. The enantiomorphic forms of biomolecules in space of higher dimension make it possible to explain the experimentally observed facts of branching of chains of biomolecules in one of the enantiomorphic forms and the absence of chain branching in another enantiomorphic form. The enantiomorphic forms of the tartaric acid molecule in a space of higher dimension reveal the cause of the reversal in different directions of the polarization plane of light in two opposite forms.
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Polytopes of the Highest Dimension in Biology
The ass="highlight">dimensionass="highlight">of a convex polytope, as a model ass="highlight">of a molecule, at the vertices ass="highlight">of which not only individual atoms but also functional groups ass="highlight">of the molecule can be located.
Published in Chapter: Polytopes of the Highest Dimension in Biology; From: The Classes of Higher Dimensional Polytopes in Chemical, Physical, and Biological Systems
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