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CHIRALITY
Optical isomers (or "enantiomers") display left- or
right-handedness.
They are said to
possess "chirality"
(Greek chiro hand)
For a molecule to be chiral, it must not
possess certain symmetry elements:
possess certain symmetry elements:
plane of
symmetry
centre of symmetry
2-fold rotation axis
2-fold rotation axis
eg. Tetrahedral
MABCD
