chirality centre

Synonym: centre of chirality
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.C01060
An atom holding a set of @L03518@ in a spatial arrangement which is not superposable on its mirror image. A @C01058@ centre is thus a generalized extension of the concept of the @A00479@ to central atoms of any element, for example N+abcd, Pabc as well as Cabcd.
Source:
PAC, 1996, 68, 2193. (Basic terminology of stereochemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1996)) on page 2203 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'chirality centre' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.C01060 RIS BibTex EndNote
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