BIOLOGY
MONOSACCHARIDES
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Detailed explanation-1: -A chiral carbon has four different groups attached to it.
Detailed explanation-2: -How to identify chiral carbon centers? The rule of thumb is: chiral carbon centers are carbon atoms that are attached to four different substituents, that are placed at the corners of a tetrahedron.
Detailed explanation-3: -A chiral carbon has four different groups attached to it.
Detailed explanation-4: -The answer is that all chiral centers are stereocenters, but not all stereocenters are chiral centers thus the words are not interchangeable. A chiral center requires four or more different molecular groups attached to a single center atom (asymetrical).
Detailed explanation-5: -An asymmetric carbon atom (chiral carbon) is a carbon atom that is attached to four different types of atoms or groups of atoms.