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A ladder of short lines showing a bond going away.
Also known as: Dashed wedge, Hash bond
A hashed bond, drawn as short parallel lines widening away from the stereocentre, shows a bond pointing behind the plane of the paper. Reversing it and the wedge on the same centre inverts the molecule into its mirror image, which may be an entirely different substance.
Shows a bond projecting behind the plane of the paper, drawn as a series of short parallel lines.
Contexts: Laboratory
Inverts the stereocentre if swapped with the wedge, producing the mirror-image molecule, which in a drug can be inactive or harmful rather than merely different.
Contexts: Laboratory
A series of short parallel lines of increasing length arranged in a wedge shape between two atoms.
One comes forward, the other goes back.