Name a compound which has no chiral carbon yet it is chiral?

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Al E.
Mar 4, 2018

Any atom can be chiral, it doesn't have to be carbon.

Consider an ammonium derivative (which I made up),

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The nitrogen atom is a chirality center, because all four of its substituents are different. However, no carbo atom is chiral, because every carbon contained in this molecule have at least two identical substituents.

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