What is the Anomeric Effect?
The preference of electronegative substituents adjacent to a heteroatom (like O in sugars) to occupy the Axial position, contrary to steric prediction, due to dipole/orbital stabilization.
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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?