1st Year Chemical Engineering Flashcards by Fran Rivera | Brainscape

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What are diastereomers?

A

Two or more chiral centres.
Can be non superimposable mirror images.
Non mirror images have different properties.

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What is an epimer?

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Change of one single chiral centre.

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