Optical Isomers Flashcards
1
Q
What’s a racemic mixture?
A
One with equal amounts of either enantiomer
2
Q
What does a chiral carbon do?
A
gives rise to optical isomers (enantiomers), which exist as non super-imposable mirror images and differ in their effect on plane polarised light
3
Q
What is optical isomerism
A
a form of stereoisomerism and occurs as a result of chirality in molecules
