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From: brooks@sierra.Stanford.EDU (Michael B. Brooks)
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Subject: Re: Irradiated Food Ban
Summary: call for references please
Keywords: stereoisometric inversion, microwaves
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Date: 6 Apr 90 19:48:06 GMT
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Before I got into solid state physics/electronics I worked for a number of
years as an aqueous and organic solution chemist (undergrad in chem from
UCSD).  I specialized in photoactivated nitrenes and modifications to 
proteins (enzymes) with various cross-linkers (which we synthesized).
I would be very interested to see the citations in Chem Abstracts indicating
work done that describes stereoisometric inversion of chiral molecules
achieved with microwave radiation.  I will buy such rearrangements with
UV or higher energy forms, but microwaves? (just the citations, please).

Mike Brooks/Stanford Electronics Labs (solid state)/SU

MIT astronomer Walter Lewin:  "Absence of evidence should never be mistaken
for evidence of absence."