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stereochemistry

  • noun

the branch of chemistry that involves the spatial arrangement of the atoms of molecules, and studies how this affects the physical and chemical properties of such species

Other meanings

  1. the effect of such spatial arrangement on the chemistry of a particular compound

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This definition is adapted from “stereochemistry” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.