See Also: stereoselective(medicine)
stereoselective(dictionary)

Just Deserts (law) and stereoselective (iou)


Just Deserts (law)




a model of criminal sentencing which holds that criminal offenders deserve the punishment they receive at the hands of the state, and which suggests that punishments should be appropriate to the type and severity of crime committed.





stereoselective (iou)



stereoselective adjective. M20.
[from STEREO- + SELECTIVE.]
Chemistry. Of a reaction: producing a particular stereoisomeric form of the product preferentially, irrespective of the configuration of the reactant.
stereoselection noun = stereoselectivity M20.
stereoselectively adverb M20.
stereoselec'tivity noun the property or fact of being stereoselective M20.