Abstract
Chirality arises in many molecules from the presence of a tetrahedral carbon with four different substituents. However, the presence of such atoms in a molecule is not a necessary condition for chirality. An object is said to be chiral if it is not superposable with its mirror image and achiral when the object and its mirror image are superposable. A chiral pair can be distinguished through their interaction with other chiral molecules to form either longlived or transient diastereomers. Diastereomers are molecules containing two or more stereogenic (chiral) centers and having the same chemical composition and bond connectivity. They differ in stereochemistry about one or more of the chiral centers.
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