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To make my question more clear, I want to ask two questions:

  1. Is it possible for molecule to be achiral even though molecule has chirality center?

    Is it possible for molecule to be achiral even though molecule has chirality center?

  2. Is it possible for molecule to be chiral even though molecule doesn't have chirality center?

  1. Is it possible for molecule to be chiral even though molecule doesn't have chirality center?

I thought of these questions because the definitions of chiral center and chiral do not have a one to one correspondence.

A chiral center is defined by carbon having four different ligands around it and chiral is defined by a compound being non-superimposable with its mirror image. They are quite related, but I think there will be counterexamples that satisfy one condition but not satisfy the other one.

To make my question more clear, I want to ask two questions:

  1. Is it possible for molecule to be achiral even though molecule has chirality center?
  1. Is it possible for molecule to be chiral even though molecule doesn't have chirality center?

I thought of these questions because the definitions of chiral center and chiral do not have a one to one correspondence.

A chiral center is defined by carbon having four different ligands around it and chiral is defined by a compound being non-superimposable with its mirror image. They are quite related, but I think there will be counterexamples that satisfy one condition but not satisfy the other one.

To make my question more clear, I want to ask two questions:

  1. Is it possible for molecule to be achiral even though molecule has chirality center?

  2. Is it possible for molecule to be chiral even though molecule doesn't have chirality center?

I thought of these questions because the definitions of chiral center and chiral do not have a one to one correspondence.

A chiral center is defined by carbon having four different ligands around it and chiral is defined by a compound being non-superimposable with its mirror image. They are quite related, but I think there will be counterexamples that satisfy one condition but not satisfy the other one.

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To make my question more clearlyclear, iI want to ask two questions.:

Is it possible for molecule to be achiral even though molecule has chirality center?

  1. Is it possible for molecule to be achiral even though molecule has chirality center?

And is it possible for molecule to be chiral even though molecule doesn't have chirality center?

  1. Is it possible for molecule to be chiral even though molecule doesn't have chirality center?

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To make my question more clearly, i want to ask two questions.

Is it possible for molecule to be achiral even though molecule has chirality center?

And is it possible for molecule to be chiral even though molecule doesn't have chirality center?

I thought this question because the definition of chirality center and chiral is not match to one to one correspondence.

Chirality center is defined by CXYZW and chiral is defined by nonsuperimposable by mirror plane. It does quite related but i think there will be counterexample that satisfying one condition but not satisfying the other one.

To make my question more clear, I want to ask two questions:

  1. Is it possible for molecule to be achiral even though molecule has chirality center?
  1. Is it possible for molecule to be chiral even though molecule doesn't have chirality center?

I thought of these questions because the definitions of chiral center and chiral do not have a one to one correspondence.

A chiral center is defined by carbon having four different ligands around it and chiral is defined by a compound being non-superimposable with its mirror image. They are quite related, but I think there will be counterexamples that satisfy one condition but not satisfy the other one.

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Is the existence of chirality center equivalent to chiral?

To make my question more clearly, i want to ask two questions.

Is it possible for molecule to be achiral even though molecule has chirality center?

And is it possible for molecule to be chiral even though molecule doesn't have chirality center?

I thought this question because the definition of chirality center and chiral is not match to one to one correspondence.

Chirality center is defined by CXYZW and chiral is defined by nonsuperimposable by mirror plane. It does quite related but i think there will be counterexample that satisfying one condition but not satisfying the other one.