"Chemical reactions, as exemplified by radical halogenation, can be stereoselective or not. Starting from achiral materials, such as butane, a racemic (nonstereoselective) product is formed by halogenation at C2. The two hydrogens at the methylene carbons of butane are equally susceptible to substitution, the halogenation step in the mechanism of radical bromination proceeding through an achiral intermediate and two enantiomeric transition states of equal energy. Similarly, starting from chiral and enantiomerically pure 2-bromobutane, chlorination of the stereocenter also gives a racemic product. However, stereoselectivity is possible in the formation of a new stereocenter, because the chiral environment retained by the molecule results in two unequal modes of attack on the intermediate radical. The two transition states have a diastereomeric relation, a condition that leads to the formation of products at unequal rates."
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K. Peter C. Vollhardt, Neil E. Schore (2011) Organic chemistry : structure and function 6th ed. Chapter 5. Stereoisomers
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