chiral
- Guideline or reference source
- ICHQ6A Specifications: new chemical drug substances and products
- Definition
- Not superimposable with its mirror image, as applied to molecules, conformations, and macroscopic objects, such as crystals. the term has been extended to samples of substances whose molecules are chiral, even if the macroscopic assembly of such molecules is racemic.
- Related Term
- chiral substance
- chirality
- racemate
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