Chirality molecules (IMAGE)

Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

Chirality molecules

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Chirality is defined as a pair of molecules, called enantiomers, which are non-superimposable mirror images of one another. Although these molecules look similar, they can have drastically different behavior in nature.

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