In 1848, Louis Pasteur 1] was the first to report the separation of two different types of sodium ammonium tartrate, which he assumed to be related to each other like two mirror images. A few years later this phenomenon was denomi nated chirality (from the Greek word X tp (= cheir) which means hand) by Lord Kelvin who used the following definition: "/ call any geometrical figure or any groups of points chiral and say it has chirality if its image in a plane mirror, ide ally realised cannot be brought to coincide with itself' (Lord Kelvin, 1883, ac cording to 2]). Subsequently, a large...