What is Kinetic Resolution?
A process where a chiral reagent or enzyme reacts faster with one enantiomer than the other, leaving the unreacted starting material enriched in the slower-reacting enantiomer.
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True or False: A molecule must have a chiral carbon to be chiral.
Under what condition is an allene ( ) chiral?
What prevents rotation in chiral Biphenyls (Atropisomerism)?
Why are simple chiral amines (like ) not optically active at room temperature?