Key Terms
- absolute configuration
- achiral
- Cahn–Ingold–Prelog rules
- chiral
- chiral environment
- chirality center
- configuration
- dextrorotatory
- diastereomer
- enantiomer
- epimer
- levorotatory
- meso compound
- optically active
- prochiral
- prochirality center
- pro-R configuration
- pro-S configuration
- R configuration
- racemate
- Re face
- resolution
- S configuration
- Si face
- specific rotation, [α]D
