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![[Post New]](/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif) 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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