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stereocenters can be
defined as
enantiomers (non-
superposable mirror images) and
diastereomers (non-
superposable, non-identical, non-mirror
image molecules)...
- or more stereocenters, the
molecule is not chiral. A meso
compound is
superposable on its
mirror image (not to be
confused with superimposable, as any two...
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there are up to four
possible configurations, and they
cannot all be non-
superposable mirror images of each other. The
possibilities for
different isomers...
- of
molecular entities which are
mirror images of each
other and non-
superposable.
Enantiomers of each
other are much like one's
right and left hands;...
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perhaps the most
recognized example of chirality. The left hand is a non-
superposable mirror image of the
right hand; no
matter how the two
hands are oriented...
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other by a reflection: they are
mirror images of each
other that are non-
superposable.
Human hands are a
macroscopic analog of this.
Every stereogenic center...
- non-planar
arrangement about an axis of
chirality so that the
molecule is not
superposable on its
mirror image. The axis of
chirality (or
chiral axis) is usually...
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plane of
polarization of a beam of light. The two forms,
which are non-
superposable when
rotated in 3-dimensional space, are said to be enantiomers. The...
- "mirror image" of the other, are
called enantiomers if they are not "
superposable" (the
correct technical term,
though the term "superimposable" is also...
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entire initial molecule", the
result of
which is a "product" that is "
superposable on the
initial one,
unless different positions are
distinguished by substitution...
