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The only exception occurs when they react with other mirror-image isomers (see end of this section). [Pg.16]

Photo 1.2) in 1874 that carbon atoms could be tetrahedral and that this led to mirror-image isomers (see Sidebar l.C). Most of the nomenclature associated with the naming of chiral molecules actually preceded knowledge of the absolute structure. In fact, the first determination of the absolute structure of a chiral molecule containing an as)anmetric carbon didn t occur until 1951 ... [Pg.12]