chirality
'Handedness'; the formal orientation in space of stereoisomers or potentially stereoisomeric compounds. (see also CIP classification; meso-carbon; Ogston hypothesis; prochirality; R; symmetry)Cahn, R.S., Ingold, C. and Prelog, V. (1966) Angew. Chem. 78, 413-447; Dodziuk, H. and Mirowicz, M. (1990) Tetrahedron Asymmetry 1, 171-186
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