Is Inositol chiral or achiral? I thought Inositol was clearly chiral since it has 6 asymmetric C atoms. But friends of me argue that it is achiral and i've found websites say the same (http://bip.cnrs-mrs.fr/bip10/Inositol-EJB.pdf). So what am I missing? Is it chiral or achiral?
Having asymmetric carbon atoms does not in itself make a compound chiral.

A compound is chiral if and only if it is not super(im)posable on its mirror image.  

If there's a plane of symmetry, then reflecting in that plane gives the same thing, by definition, and that meets the criterion for super(im)posability - the mirror image is superimposable on the original and therefore the molecule is not chiral.

Only D- and L- chiro-inositol are chiral - all the other stereoisomers have planes of symmetry and are therefore not chiral.