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Identifying chiral molecules
ОглавлениеThe presence of an asymmetric, or chiral, carbon atom is sufficient to produce a handed molecule.
A chiral carbon atom has four different groups attached to it. The majority of biological molecules have one or more chiral carbon atoms and, for this reason, they’re chiral. Figure 3-8 shows the chiral nature of glucose.
FIGURE 3-8: The structure of glucose, a sugar with four chiral carbon atoms.
