Chiral Centres and Chiral Molecules

What is a chiral molecule?
How do you find the chiral centre, or chiral carbon, in an organic molecule?
What makes a molecule chiral?
Why is chirality important?

These are all excellent questions, and AUS-e-TUTE has just uploaded some excellent resources to help you answer these questions and apply the concepts.

AUS-e-TUTE Members should log-in to use the new resources (tutorial, game and test with worked solutions).
If you are not an AUS-e-TUTE there is a "free-to-view" tutorial currently available for evaluation purposes at http://www.ausetute.com.au/chirality.html

Airbags

"BANG! I hit a hard pillow! Then there's white powder everywhere!", Sam graphically described a recent car accident.
The hard pillow is the inflated airbag, a safety device incorporated into cars which is designed to reduce the risk of serious injury during a collision, as it did in this case.

Where does the air in the airbag come from? And what is all that white powder?

Read all about the chemistry of airbags in the June 2017 edition of AUS-e-NEWS.

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