Can anybody say how to identify chiral center of the molecule from molcular structure?
Chiral center is that carbon atom about which there are no two identical groups. It can be understood by the fact that carbon has a valency of 4, by which it makes 4 covalents bonds in organic compounds. As the nature of the structure formed by carbon 3-Dimensional, so the presence of 2 identical group can make the two sides(having same group),about the carbon atom we are considering, to become the mirror images of each other. This will falsify the elementary requirement of being chiral. Thus you can identify a chiral atom by carefully studying the groups present around the carbon atom in question. I hope my answer will clarify your doubt.
