https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.C01058
The geometric property of a rigid object (or spatial arrangement of points or atoms) of being non-superposable on its mirror image; such an object has no symmetry elements of the second kind (a mirror plane, , a centre of , a rotation-reflection axis, ). If the object is superposable on its mirror image the object is described as being
inversion
, achiral
.See also:
handedness
, superposability