axial chirality

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of molecular asymmetry, or chirality, where a molecule lacks a chiral center (a carbon atom with four different groups) but instead possesses a chiral axis.

Word forms

axial chirality
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.