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ronald75
ronald75
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College - Junior

What exactly are enantiomers? Please povide me with some examples.

I need to explain enantiomerism in my assignment..can't get from the book definitions correctly..Help me out!

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Posted by ronald75 on Wednesday October 1, 2008 at 3:14 AM and tagged with biochemistry, enantiomer, structural isomerism.

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  1. reidalot
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    College - Freshman

     

    In chemistry, enantiomers are complete mirror images of each other. They are stereoisomers that are the same but opposite!

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    Posted by reidalot on Wednesday October 1, 2008 at 9:43 AM

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