00483 IUPAC Gold Book - asymmetric induction 10.1351/goldbook.A00483 A00483 current 1 The traditional term describing the preferential formation in a chemical reaction of one enantiomer or diastereoisomer over the other as a result of the influence of a chiral feature present in the substrate, reagent, catalyst or environment. catalyst https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C00876 chiral https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/C01057 diastereoisomer https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/D01679 enantiomer https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/E02069 reagent https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/R05190 PAC, 1994, 66, 1077. 'Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994)' on page 1086 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199466051077) PAC, 1996, 68, 2193. 'Basic terminology of stereochemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1996)' on page 2200 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199668122193) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/A00483/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/A00483/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/A00483/plain Citation: 'asymmetric induction' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.A00483 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-29T03:03:29+00:00