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Organic chemistry

R and S assignment

To assign R or S, rank the groups by CIP priority breaking ties atom by atom, view with the lowest priority away, and read 1 → 2 → 3: clockwise R, anticlockwise S; viewed from the wrong side the letter reverses, and swapping two groups flips it.

About 14 minutes6 activities Paper packet