Introduction To General, Organic, And Biochemistry
Introduction To General, Organic, And Biochemistry
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ISBN: 9781337571357
Author: Frederick A. Bettelheim, William H. Brown, Mary K. Campbell, Shawn O. Farrell, Omar Torres
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 14, Problem 26P
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Interpretation: This is to be explained how a drug is said to be chiral. Whether a chiral drug will be optically active or rotate the plane of polarized light or not needs to be explained.

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A molecule is said to be chiral if it is non-superimposable with its mirror image. For example, left and right hands. These two non-superimposable mirror images of chiral molecules are known as enantiomers.

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