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  • Thumbnail for Stereocenter
    stereocenters can be defined as enantiomers (non-superposable mirror images) and diastereomers (non-superposable, non-identical, non-mirror image molecules)...
    11 KB (1,248 words) - 09:48, 3 April 2024
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    or more stereocenters, the molecule is not chiral. A meso compound is superposable on its mirror image (not to be confused with superimposable, as any two...
    5 KB (607 words) - 18:36, 24 June 2024
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    there are up to four possible configurations, and they cannot all be non-superposable mirror images of each other. The possibilities for different isomers...
    9 KB (1,089 words) - 10:27, 24 July 2024
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    with three oxalate ligands displays helical chirality with its two non-superposable geometries labelled Λ (lambda) for the left-handed screw axis and Δ (delta)...
    150 KB (17,056 words) - 12:22, 24 August 2024
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    of molecular entities which are mirror images of each other and non-superposable. Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE (2009). "Chapter 13: Higher Cognitive...
    273 KB (26,900 words) - 19:44, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chirality (chemistry)
    2nd ed. (the "Gold Book") (1997). Online corrected version: (2006–) "Superposability". doi:10.1351/goldbook.S06144 Cotton, F. A., "Chemical Applications...
    31 KB (3,629 words) - 15:21, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louis Pasteur
    twisting the light. The (2R,3R)- and (2S,3S)- tartrates were isometric, non-superposable mirror images of each other. This was the first time anyone had demonstrated...
    130 KB (14,120 words) - 09:09, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stereoisomerism
    other by a reflection: they are mirror images of each other that are non-superposable. Human hands are a macroscopic analog of this. Every stereogenic center...
    16 KB (1,641 words) - 13:48, 2 August 2024
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    "mirror image" of the other, are called enantiomers if they are not "superposable" (the correct technical term, though the term "superimposable" is also...
    10 KB (1,496 words) - 21:03, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chirality
    perhaps the most recognized example of chirality. The left hand is a non-superposable mirror image of the right hand; no matter how the two hands are oriented...
    33 KB (3,803 words) - 14:32, 2 August 2024
  • Structural diagrams of two chiral molecules, the non-superposable mirror-image enantiomers (S)-alanine (left) and (R)-alanine (right). Though they have...
    171 KB (18,187 words) - 16:16, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Terpene
    and terpenoids are usually chiral. Chiral compounds can exist as non-superposable mirror images, which exhibit distinct physical properties such as odor...
    32 KB (3,485 words) - 02:54, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Enantiomer
    only in the chemical sense of compounds of ordinary matter that are not superposable on their mirror image. Quasi-enantiomers are molecular species that are...
    24 KB (2,627 words) - 04:20, 22 July 2024
  • plane of polarization of a beam of light. The two forms, which are non-superposable when rotated in 3-dimensional space, are said to be enantiomers. The...
    13 KB (1,548 words) - 07:28, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules
    despite having two or more stereogenic centers. A meso compound is superposable on its mirror image, therefore it reduces the number of stereoisomers...
    26 KB (2,900 words) - 12:00, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Axial chirality
    non-planar arrangement about an axis of chirality so that the molecule is not superposable on its mirror image. The axis of chirality (or chiral axis) is usually...
    7 KB (768 words) - 18:47, 30 May 2023
  • fields. The Helmholtz principle rests mainly on the linearity and superposability of the light field, and it has close analogues in non-electromagnetic...
    18 KB (2,610 words) - 21:35, 18 August 2023
  • ligands (shown at right) displays helical chirality with its two non-superposable geometries labelled Λ (lambda) for the left-handed screw axis and Δ (delta)...
    27 KB (2,957 words) - 03:23, 7 August 2024
  • enables to determine amplitude of motion based on a unitary wave. They are superposable, thus effective on sea state based probability solutions. Different modelling...
    7 KB (1,158 words) - 19:45, 14 July 2021
  • Thumbnail for Chiral media
    describes an object, especially a molecule, which has or produces a non-superposable mirror image of itself. In chemistry, such a molecule is called an enantiomer...
    29 KB (3,331 words) - 23:36, 20 November 2022
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