Organic Chemistry

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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.


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