A
chemical reaction that can be described as the conversion of a reactant into its mirror image, without
rotation or translation of the product, so that the product
enantiomer actually coincides with the mirror image of the reactant molecule. Examples of such
reactions are cited under the entries
fluxional and
degenerate rearrangement.
Source:
PAC, 1994, 66, 1077
(Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994))
on page 1144
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A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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