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Can heteroatoms with lone pairs be chiral centres?

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If a compound has a carbon atom with four different groups covalently bonded to it, it is called asymmetric and enantiomers of the compound can exist.

But imagine if one has a different central atom, such as a nitrogen or a sulfur where one of the four "groups" is an electron pair (see examples below).

An explosive chloramine and a sulfonium ion

Would such a thing still behave like a "normal" asymmetric carbon? If not, how else does it behave, i.e. are there enantiomers? Is my assumption that those will still have $\mathrm{sp^3}$ hybrid orbitals wrong? I would also enjoy pointers to literature, I was unable to find any.


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