Types of Isomers: Constitutional Isomers, Stereoisomers, Enantiomers, And Diastereomers How do we tell if molecules are “related”? And once we know that they are, how
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How To Draw The Enantiomer Of A Compound – The Single Swap Rule Exchanging any two groups on a chiral center will flip the R/S
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How To Draw A Bond Rotation Rotation can happen to an infinitesimal extent around carbon-carbon single bonds but for the most part we only really
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Assigning R and S Configurations With the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog (CIP) Rules Enantiomers are stereoisomers that are non-superimposable mirror images of each other (by the way, molecules that are
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Cahn Ingold Prelog Priorities (2): Determining R/S On Rings, Chains, And More In this post we’ll expand on the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog (CIP) rules and show how
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Enantiomers vs. Diastereomers vs. The Same This post on how to solve “Enantiomers vs. Diastereomers vs. the Same?” problems, a classic and important type of
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Determining R and S Configurations of Newman Projections How do you determine R and S configurations on Newman projections? The key is to be able to quickly
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Determining R and S Configurations On Fischer Projections From time to time you may be asked to determine R/S on a Fischer projection. So how
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Recognizing Meso Compounds In chemistry, two molecules that are superimposable mirror images are considered to be identical molecules. They will have identical physical properties in all respects.
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Optical Rotation, Optical Activity, and Specific Rotation If you’ve been learning about stereochemistry, enantiomers, and diastereomers, the following might sound familiar: Diastereomers have different physical
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