So, we have a transfer of the chiral information from the catalyst to the products.

手性信息从催化剂转移到了产物上。

In thalidomide, for example, the chiral center is a carbon atom attached to one of the rings.

例如在萨力多胺中，手性中心一个吸附在一个结构环上的碳原。

A chiral molecule has an atom—typically carbon—with four different groups attached to it.

手性有一个原——典型的碳原——有四个不同的组吸附原上。

An asymmetric organocatalysis that means that the catalyst, our small well-defined organic catalyst is asymmetric, that it's chiral.

不对称有机催化也就说，们的小而明确的有机催化剂不对称的，手性的。

And in the same way, as our hands are chiral, molecules can be chiral.

同样的，手手性的，也可手性的。

If you position the version of the molecule that's considered " right-handed" , called the R enantiomer, so the closest oxygen atom to the chiral center is below it, the hydrogen atom attached to the center will be facing away from you.

如果你找到了认为“右撇”的变体，即R对映体，那么离手性中心最近的氧原就在它的下方，附在中心的氢原将背朝你。

Thalidomide, which is made up of three connected rings of carbon and nitrogen atoms, plus some oxygen and hydrogen, is what's known as a chiral molecule.

萨力多胺，由三个碳原和氮原的连接环及一些氧和氢组成，也被称为手性。

So, our hands are mirror images of each other, they are chiral because we cannot put one on top of the other and make them look identical.

们的手彼此的镜像，它们手性的，它们并不完全重合。

Chiral comes from the Greek for hand or claw, and chemists often think of chiral molecules as being right-handed or left-handed.

手性一词来源于希腊指手或爪，化学家们通常将手性当成右撇或左撇。

And that's because the different versions of chiral molecules—called enantiomers —are made up of all the same parts, but arranged differently.

这因为手性的不同变体——即对映体——由所有相同部组成，但却不同形式排列。

These groups are kind of like your fingers: in each enantiomer, the groups are attached to the chiral center in the opposite order, so they’re mirror images of each other.

这些基团有点像你的手指： 在每个对映异构体中，这些基团相反的顺序附着在手性中心， 所它们彼此的镜像。

In two, but molecules can have more than one chiral center, and that's not the only stereosometry that they can have.

在二维中， 但可拥有不止一个手性中心，这并非它们唯一的立体化学性质。

So the point of this sort of chiral transition that I'm putting out is chirality is actually a signature of being in a complex chemical space.

因此，提出的这种手性转变的核心在于，手性实际上存在于复杂化学空间中的一个标志。

And that’s because the different versions of chiral molecules — called enantiomers — are made up of all the same parts, but arranged differently.

那因为不同版本的手性— — 称为对映体—— 由所有相同的部组成， 但排列不同。

You push your molecules to a large enough complexity that chiral molecules become very likely to form.

你将复杂度提高到一定程度，手性就非常有可能形成。

And then there's a cascade of molecular recognition where chiral molecules can recognize each other.

于，识别过程如瀑布般层层递进，其中手性能够彼此识别。

But if you get to this threshold boundary, above that boundary, almost every single molecule is chiral.

但一旦跨越这一阈值边界，在边界之上，几乎所有都具有手性。

People take for granted the existence of chiral molecules at all, that this property of having a handedness, and they just assume that it's just a generic feature of chemistry.

人们理所当然地认为手性存在的，这种具有手性的特性，他们只假设这化学的一个普遍特征。