Compounds with stereocentres other than carbon

6 Compounds with stereocentres other than carbon 

Silicon (Si) and germanium (Ge) are in the same group of the periodic table as carbon, and they form tetrahedral compounds as carbon does. When four different groups are situated around the central atom in silicon, germanium and nitrogen compounds, the molecules are chiral. Sulphoxides, where one of the four groups is a nonbonding electron pair, are also chiral. 

Chiral compounds with silicon, germanium, and nitrogen stereooentres Chiral sulphoxide 

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