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Geometrical approach to central molecular chirality: A chirality selection rule
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AbstractChirality is of primary importance in many areas of chemistry and has been extensively investigated since its discovery. We introduce here a description of central chirality for tetrahedral molecules using a geometrical approach based on complex numbers. According to this representation, for a molecule having n chiral centers it is possible to define an “index of chirality χ.” Consequently, a “chirality selection rule” has been derived which allows the characterization of a molecule as achiral, enantiomer, or diastereoisomer. Chirality 15:227–230, 2003. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Title: Geometrical approach to central molecular chirality: A chirality selection rule
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AbstractChirality is of primary importance in many areas of chemistry and has been extensively investigated since its discovery.
We introduce here a description of central chirality for tetrahedral molecules using a geometrical approach based on complex numbers.
According to this representation, for a molecule having n chiral centers it is possible to define an “index of chirality χ.
” Consequently, a “chirality selection rule” has been derived which allows the characterization of a molecule as achiral, enantiomer, or diastereoisomer.
Chirality 15:227–230, 2003.
© 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
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