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The property of a molecular entity or conformation not being superposable on its mirror image under the relevant allowed transformations.
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Opposite crystal morphologies and rotations supplied an empirical route to the concept now formalized as molecular chirality.
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Molecular chirality is a central stereochemical property defined by symmetry rather than by one particular asymmetric atom.
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A pair of configurationally stable chiral compounds related by reflection are enantiomers in an achiral environment.
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A rigid molecular structure is chiral when its symmetry lacks operations that superpose it on its mirror image; conformational motion can change the relevant description.
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