Chirality Flashcards

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Enantiomer

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An isomer which has a non-superimposable mirror image and can rotate a plane of polarised light in one direction, whilst it’s isomer rotates it in an opposite direction

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Chirality

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A chiral centre in a molecule or ion causes it to have two optical isomers which are called enantiomers

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