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Can someone tell me how to name BINAP R or S? IT has NO chiral centres and I haven't got a clue of how to name it!
How can BINAP be named without chiral centres using the R S nomenclature?
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They are atropisomers.
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Okay. So how do i name them?
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A good search term would be "axial chirality".
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