Chiral intermediate is an atom having totally different groups around it. Carbon atom for example surrouned by 4 different groups.
Chirality is an interesting aspect of chemistry that adequately explains say, the enantiomers of alanine or the enantiomers of 2-aminopentane. Basically, chirality (occurs in optical isomers) means that two molecules or atoms cannot be superimposed on each other. They're mirror images of each other, like your hands. Your left hand and your right hand are, in content, the same, but they can't be superimposed on each other. No matter which way you turn them - left, right, up, down, - you can never get one to look exactly like the other. Thus, your hands are perfect examples of chirality. Other examples of chirality in daily life would be shoes, and gloves.
Think of a ball placed in front of a mirror. If you were to take a picture of both, you would see, one is indistinguishable from another and thus can be superimposed on each other. Clearly, the ball in this case would not be chiral.
The word "enantiomers" describes a pair of chiral molecules, so in the example above, you hands can be considered "enantiomers"
Chirality occurs in stereoisomers, more specifically, in optical isomers.
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Chirality is the property of being different from one's mirror image. Humans, for example, are chiral. An ordinary human has a liver on the right side; a mirror image has a liver on the left side. Thus humans are not equivalent to their mirror image; they have chirality. The same applies to some molecules.
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'Nuclear chemistry' is an odd term, what does it mean? Nuclear energy and chemical energy are not at all related, but both can have chain reactions.
Biochirality is the chirality - of biological molecules, especially the study of the genesis of such chirality - the phenomenon by which two biological molecules are symmetrical.
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In chemistry it means precipitate.
Doing vibrational spectroscopy on nontoxic molecules, examining the chirality shift of acid-catalized hydrolyzing sucrose rather than toxic chemicals... etc.
Molecules of opposite chirality would be toxic to the ones that currently exist on earth right? So that would mean that the L molecules already in existence on earth would be toxic to the newly introduced D molecules? I'm not really sure about this, anyone have more chemistry/biology background?
in chemistry the term au could stand for gold (from the Latin 'auris')
'Nuclear chemistry' is an odd term, what does it mean? Nuclear energy and chemical energy are not at all related, but both can have chain reactions.
Biochirality is the chirality - of biological molecules, especially the study of the genesis of such chirality - the phenomenon by which two biological molecules are symmetrical.
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The term refers to a region of a molecule where a chemical change (for example a new bond) is favored to occur.
"ChemComm" is a term that is short for Chemical Communications. Chemical Communications is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
The term efflorescence can refer to different things. It is used in both chemistry and pathology, but can also mean a period of flowering or the result of growing and development.
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-verb (used without object)10.Chemistry . to volatilize from the solid state to a gas, and then condense again as a solid without passing through the liquid state.