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Offline hkalfighter

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is it a chiral carbon ?
« on: April 16, 2006, 04:25:50 PM »
in an organic compound , chiral carbon is the carbon bonded to 4 different groups but i wonder whether it's chiral if the groups bonded to the carbon are isotopes .
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Re: is it a chiral carbon ?
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2006, 04:29:44 PM »
Yes, it's. For example, in the following molecule the central carbon is a chiral centre.
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Re: is it a chiral carbon ?
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2006, 07:56:39 AM »
Also 1H2H3HC-COOH is chiral
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Re: is it a chiral carbon ?
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2006, 08:53:02 PM »
C-13 is not an exception
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