34 Enantiomers
34.1 Enantiomers
Main article: Chirality^1
In chemistry, two stereoisomers are said to beenantiomersif they are mirror images of
each other. Much as a left and right hand are different but one is the mirror image of the
other, enantiomers are stereoisomers whose molecules are nonsuperposable mirror images
of each other.
1 Chapter 32 on page 129