chiral resolution
Mirror-image molecule separation
Chiral resolution is the separation of a mixture of mirror-image molecules (enantiomers) into its individual forms.
Many drugs and biological compounds exist as left- and right-handed versions with different effects in the body, making separation essential: Chiral resolution of the compound revealed only one enantiomer was therapeutically active.
- enantiomersMirror-image molecular pairs
- specific rotationStandardized optical activity measure
- chromatographyTechnique separating mixtures by differential migration
- crystallizationForming ordered solid structure
- mirror symmetryCongruence through reflection
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- Stereochemistrystereoisomer, enantiomer, conformer, axial, equatorial
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