Is Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) chiral or achiral?

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anor277
Mar 22, 2018

Aspirin is ACHIRAL....

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Aspirin cannot support optical isomerism; it is nevertheless a wonder drug; cheap to make in quantity, fairly innocuous, and with many medicinal applications....

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