Syntheses of molecules with this property often employ auxiliaries via asymmetric induction.
Syntheses of molecules with this property often employ auxiliaries via asymmetric induction. The fact that Mosher's acid has this property allows it to be used as a derivatizing agent to change the NMR shift of other molecules with this property. Meso compounds notably do not have this property due to a plane of symmetry, and it was first studied in crystals of tartaric acid by Louis Pasteur. Molecules with this property are labeled as R or S using the (*) Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules. Molecules with this property rotate plane polarized light, meaning they are optically active. For 10 points, name this property of some molecules which makes them distinct from their mirror images, which can be roughly defined as handedness.
Syntheses of molecules with this property often employ auxiliaries via asymmetric induction.
chirality [accept word forms; accept things like they have a chiral center; accept word forms of optical activity until mention, prompt after; prompt on "stereochemistry" or word forms; prompt on "stereoisomers" or word forms; prompt on "enantiomers", "diasteromers", "epimers", "anomers" or word forms]