Chiral Definition

kīrəl
adjective
Relating to or exhibiting chirality.
American Heritage Medicine
Designating or of an asymmetrical form, as a molecule, that cannot be superimposed on its mirror image.
Webster's New World

Of an object that exhibits chirality, as in the left-handed and right-handed versions of a helix.

Wiktionary

Origin of Chiral

  • Ancient Greek χείρ (kheir, “hand”) +‎ -al.

    From Wiktionary

  • chir(o)– –al

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Chiral Sentence Examples

  • Of particular interest is the supporting of chiral species for asymmetric catalysis.

  • This approach is becoming increasingly popular in Organic Chemistry as an alternative to the used of expensive chiral catalysts and auxiliaries.

  • We believe that this may be adapted to prepare novel chiral chelating diamines.

  • An experimental and computational study of the enantioselective lithiation of N -Boc pyrrolidine using sparteine-like chiral diamines, J. Am.

  • A high correlation has been found between the scaled index and helical twisting power for a range of chiral dopants.

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Words Starting With

CCHCHI

Words Ending With

LALRAL

Unscrambles

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Words Starting With C and Ending With L

Starts With C & Ends With LStarts With CH & Ends With LStarts With C & Ends With AL

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With C6 Letter Words Ending With L