Due to this property, the morning sickness drug thalidomide is a racemic mixture of two enantiomers, one of which is teratogenic.
In SN2 reactions with compounds that posses this property, Walden inversion occurs and this property was first accounted for by van't Hoff as a consequence of bond structure. The group with the lowest priority is positioned away from the observer in order to classified this property as R and S based on Chan-Ingold-Prelog priority rules. Glycine is the only amino acid to lack this property while in sugars the D conformer is most favorable for the formation of peptide bonds. Due to this property, the morning sickness drug thalidomide is a racemic mixture of two enantiomers, one of which is teratogenic. For 10 points, name this property of molecules that possesses a non-superimposable mirror image.
In SN2 reactions with compounds that posses this property, Walden inversion occurs and this property was first accounted for by van't Hoff as a consequence of bond structure.
{Chirality}