chirality
- Guideline or reference source
- UNODC Glossary of terms for quality assurance and good laboratory practice
- Definition
- Property of a molecule not to be superimposable on its mirror image. Owing to asymmetry in their structures these molecules can exist as different isomers and will have special optical and biological properties.
- Related Term
- chiral
- chiral substance
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