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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Topicity?

Also known as: homotopic · enantiotopic · diastereotopic

Definition 28.6 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 28 — Asymmetric Synthesis

Two groups of a molecule are homotopic when exchanged by a rotation of the molecule (replacing either gives the same compound), enantiotopic when exchanged only by a reflection (replacing one or the other gives enantiomers), and diastereotopic when no symmetry operation exchanges them (replacing one or the other gives diastereomers).

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