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![[Post New]](/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif) 7 Apr 2007 20:00:27 IST
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gimme n idea about chiral centre
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7 Apr 2007 20:06:52 IST
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The term chiral is used to describe an object which is non-superimposable on its mirror image.
A molecule is chiral if it cannot be superimposed on its mirror image the two mirror images of such a molecule are referred to as enantiomers. A mixture of equal amounts of the two enantiomers is said to be a racemic mixture.
Human hands are perhaps the most universally recognized example of chirality.
 The two enantiomers of bromochlorofluoromethane
Here carbon atom is the centre of chirality.
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Bipin Kumar Dubey
Chemical Dept.
IIT Kharagpur
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7 Apr 2007 20:09:24 IST
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a carbon atom attatched to 4 different groups is called a chiral carbon atom..............
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10 Apr 2007 19:50:42 IST
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that carbon whose all four valencies are satisfied by different atoms is called a chiral carbon. and such a compund in whihc a chiral center exists is an optically active compund.
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