Question

What are chiral compounds?

Answer 1

Chiral compounds:

• If any combination of translations or rotations cannot superimpose the molecule's image on its mirror counterpart, the molecule is said to be chiral.
• The compounds in which Chiral Centre is present are called chiral compounds.
• A chiral centre is a non-superimposable mirror image of an atom with four distinct groups bound to it.

Chiral Centre:

• Chiral Centre is defined as the Centre atom which is connected to the four different atoms.

Example:

• An example of a chiral compound is $\mathrm{CHFClBr}$ with a pair of stereoisomers that are mirror reflections of one another.