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Incoming links: Specification of Molecular Chirality by Robert Sidney Cahn and others
Vladimir Prelog Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Vladimir Prelog helped formulate the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priority rules for specifying molecular chirality. Ranking the groups attached to a stereogenic centre makes it possible to assign a reproducible stereochemical descriptor. A descriptor records configuration through a stated convention, rather than the sign of a sample's measured optical rotation.[ref]
Specification of Molecular Chirality by Robert Sidney Cahn and others. Cahn, Ingold and Prelog, Specification of Molecular Chirality, 1966
Portrait of Vladimir Prelog
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