Friday 19 August 2016

organic chemistry - What causes rapid nitrogen inversion?


When I asked my teacher whether a nitrogen bonded to 3 unique groups counted as a chiral center, they said that it did not because nitrogen undergoes rapid inversion at room temperature. What causes this? And what other atoms are capable of doing this?




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