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Applicable to questions about the ability of a molecule (or class of molecules) to be superimposed on their mirror image(s).

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Can heteroatoms with lone pairs be chiral centres?

If a compound has a carbon atom with four different groups covalently bonded to it, it is called asymmetric and enantiomers of the compound can exist. But imagine if one has a different central atom, …
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