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🧬🌱 “When Mirror Images Decide Between Protection and Toxicity.” Introduction Pesticides are essential tools in modern agriculture, protecting crops from insects, weeds, and pathogens. Many of these compounds are chiral, meaning they exist as two or more non-superimposable mirror-image forms called enantiomers. Enantiomers often exhibit very different biological activities, toxicities, and environmental behaviors. Understanding these stereochemical differences is critical to designing pesticides that are both effective and safe. Enantioselectivity in pesticides arises because the molecular …

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