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The smallest chiral hydrocarbon?
Last week I posed the following question: What is the lowest molecular weight hydrocarbon that is chiral? (A couple of restrictions — isotopes don’t count, so no deuterium or 13C, and no conformational stereoisomers, I’m looking for stable enantiomers at … Continue reading
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Tagged bonding, chemical structures, chemistry, chirality, exam questions, hydrocarbons, isomerism, stereochemistry, twitter
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