chirality

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isomerism

  • chemical structure of methane
    In isomerism: Enantiomers

    …phenomenon of handedness, or “chirality,” is perhaps the most important phenomenon related to isomerism. Many objects in the macroscopic world are chiral. A scissors and a screw are familiar chiral objects; they are not superimposable on their mirror images. But related objects, a simple knife or a nail, for…

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