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In chemistry, pyramidal inversion is a fluxional process in compounds with a pyramidal molecule, such as ammonia "turns inside out". It is a rapid oscillation of the atom and substituents, the molecule or ion passing through a planar transition state. For a compound that would otherwise be chiral due to a stereocenter, pyramidal inversion allows its enantiomers to racemize.
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