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It has already been stated (Chap. 4) that according to van ’t Hoff and Le Bel, the optical activity in a compound is related to the presence of an asymmetrically substituted carbon atom (also called asymmetric atom or stereogenic centre).
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Ahluwalia, V.K. (2022). Symmetry Elements. In: Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84961-0_5
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