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  2. Stereochemistry - Wikipedia

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    Stereochemistry, a subdiscipline of chemistry, studies the spatial arrangement of atoms that form the structure of molecules and their manipulation. [1] The study of stereochemistry focuses on the relationships between stereoisomers, which by definition have the same molecular formula and sequence of bonded atoms (constitution), but differ in ...

  3. Chiral auxiliary - Wikipedia

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    Chiral auxiliary. In stereochemistry, a chiral auxiliary is a stereogenic group or unit that is temporarily incorporated into an organic compound in order to control the stereochemical outcome of the synthesis. [1][2] The chirality present in the auxiliary can bias the stereoselectivity of one or more subsequent reactions.

  4. Dihedral angle - Wikipedia

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    3D angles. Dihedral. Solid. v. t. e. A dihedral angle is the angle between two intersecting planes or half-planes. In chemistry, it is the clockwise angle between half-planes through two sets of three atoms, having two atoms in common. In solid geometry, it is defined as the union of a line and two half-planes that have this line as a common edge.

  5. Molecular geometry - Wikipedia

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    Molecular geometry. Geometry of the water molecule with values for O-H bond length and for H-O-H bond angle between two bonds. Molecular geometry is the three-dimensional arrangement of the atoms that constitute a molecule. It includes the general shape of the molecule as well as bond lengths, bond angles, torsional angles and any other ...

  6. Crystal structure - Wikipedia

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    The geometry of the unit cell is defined as a parallelepiped, providing six lattice parameters taken as the lengths of the cell edges (a, b, c) and the angles between them (α, β, γ). The positions of particles inside the unit cell are described by the fractional coordinates ( x i , y i , z i ) along the cell edges, measured from a reference ...

  7. Skeletal formula - Wikipedia

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    The skeletal formula of the antidepressant drug escitalopram, featuring skeletal representations of heteroatoms, a triple bond, phenyl groups and stereochemistry. The skeletal formula, line-angle formula, bond-line formula or shorthand formula of an organic compound is a type of molecular structural formula that serves as a shorthand representation of a molecule's bonding and some details of ...

  8. Anti-periplanar - Wikipedia

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    This geometry is preferred because it aligns σ C-H and σ* C-X orbitals. [8] [9] Figure 9 shows the σ C-H orbital and the σ* C-X orbital parallel to each other, allowing the σ C-H orbital to donate into the σ* C-X anti-bonding orbital through hyperconjugation. This serves to weaken C-H and C-X bond, both of which are broken in an E 2 reaction.

  9. Bent's rule - Wikipedia

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    Bent's rule provides an additional level of accuracy to valence bond theory. Valence bond theory proposes that covalent bonds consist of two electrons lying in overlapping, usually hybridised, atomic orbitals from two bonding atoms. The assumption that a covalent bond is a linear combination of atomic orbitals of just the two bonding atoms is ...