narcissistic reaction [obsolete]
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.N04086
A
chemical reaction
that can be described as the conversion of a reactant into its mirror image, without rotation or translation of the product, so that the product enantiomer
actually coincides with the mirror image of the reactant molecule. Examples of such reactions are cited under the entries fluxional
and degenerate rearrangement
.