Walden inversion
English
Etymology
First observed by chemist Paul Walden in 1896.
Noun
Walden inversion (countable and uncountable, plural Walden inversions)
- (chemistry) The inversion of a chiral center in a molecule in a chemical reaction, converting the configuration of the molecule from one enantiomeric form to the other.
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