The nonexistence of chiral substituted dicyclopentadienylmetals bearing identical substituents is pointed out and the conditions that other substituted metallocenes bearing identical substituents need to fulfill to be chiral are discussed.
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Rezende, Daisy de Brito; Campos, Ivan P. de Arruda. J. Chem. Educ.2001 78 1130.
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