Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9781118875766
Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig B. Fryhle, Scott A. Snyder
Publisher: WILEY
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The chiral centers of limonene and thalidomide are to be shown.

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Chirality centers are the atoms (usually carbons) with four different substituents.

A chirality center creates a non-superimposable mirror image.

An atom having four unidentical substituents will be a chirality center.

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