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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Cram representation?

Definition 39.2 School Chemistry — Grades 1 to 12 · Chapter 39 — Stereochemistry: Chirality and Isomers

In the Cram representation of a carbon atom with four single bonds, two bonds are drawn in the plane of the paper as plain lines, at an angle, the bond pointing towards the reader as a solid wedge and the bond pointing away as a dashed wedge.

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