Titre
Atomic diversity, molecular diversity, and chemical diversity: the concept of chemodiversity.
Type
lettre à l'éditeur
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Testa, B.
Auteure/Auteur
Vistoli, G.
Auteure/Auteur
Pedretti, A.
Auteure/Auteur
Bojarski, A.J.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
1612-1880[electronic]
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2009
Volume
6
Numéro
8
Première page
1145
Dernière page/numéro d’article
1151
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Comment ; Journal Article
Résumé
This minireview is meant as an introduction to the following paper. To this end, it presents the general background against which the joint paper should be understood. The first objective of the present paper is thus to clarify some concepts and related terminology, drawing a clear distinction between i) atomic diversity (i.e., atomic-property space), ii) molecular or macromolecular diversity (i.e., molecular- or macromolecular-property spaces), and iii) chemical diversity (i.e., chemical-diversity space). The first refers to the various electronic states an atom can occupy. The second encompasses the conformational and property spaces of a given (macro)molecule. The third pertains to the diversity in structure and properties exhibited by a library or a supramolecular assembly of different chemical compounds. The ground is thus laid for the content of the joint paper, which pertains to case ii, to be placed in its broader chemodiversity context. The second objective of this paper is to point to the concepts of chemodiversity and biodiversity as forming a continuum. Chemodiversity is indeed the material substratum of organisms. In other words, chemodiversity is the material condition for life to emerge and exist. Increasing our knowledge of chemodiversity is thus a condition for a better understanding of life as a process.
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Date de création
2009-10-08T13:28:05.305Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-21T01:20:07Z