Explore Stereocenters through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Stereocenters meaning
plural of stereocenter
Using Stereocenters
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of stereocenter
- In the example corpus, stereocenters often appears in combinations such as: three stereocenters, the stereocenters, stereocenters are.
Context around Stereocenters
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stereocenters
- In this selection, "stereocenters" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, two and tetrasubstituted stand out and add context to how "stereocenters" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all the stereocenters are opposite and all three stereocenters are in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stereocenters" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stereocenters
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
If all the stereocenters are opposite, they are enantiomers. (9 words)
There are three stereocenters in alpha-tocopherol, so this is a chiral molecule. (13 words)
This was the first method for the synthesis of highly enantioselective chromanone products containing tetrasubstituted stereocenters. (16 words)
However, if the middle of the three stereocenters were changed (so the hydrogen was now pointing down and the methyl group pointing up), this would become the structure of RSR-alpha-tocopherol. (32 words)
This means that configurational isomers can be interconverted only by breaking covalent bonds to the stereocenter, for example, by inverting the configurations of some or all of the stereocenters in a compound. (32 words)
LSD is a chiral compound with two stereocenters at the carbon atoms C-5 and C-8, so that theoretically four different optical isomers of LSD could exist. (28 words)
Example sentences (8)
This was the first method for the synthesis of highly enantioselective chromanone products containing tetrasubstituted stereocenters.
However, if the middle of the three stereocenters were changed (so the hydrogen was now pointing down and the methyl group pointing up), this would become the structure of RSR-alpha-tocopherol.
If all the stereocenters are opposite, they are enantiomers.
In the image of RRR-alpha-tocopherol below, all three stereocenters are in the R form.
LSD is a chiral compound with two stereocenters at the carbon atoms C-5 and C-8, so that theoretically four different optical isomers of LSD could exist.
There are three stereocenters in alpha-tocopherol, so this is a chiral molecule.
This holds true for compounds with more than two stereocenters; if at least one descriptor is the same in both pairs, the compounds are diastereomers.
This means that configurational isomers can be interconverted only by breaking covalent bonds to the stereocenter, for example, by inverting the configurations of some or all of the stereocenters in a compound.
Common combinations with stereocenters
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- three stereocenters 3×
- the stereocenters 2×
- stereocenters are 2×
- two stereocenters 2×
- stereocenters in 2×