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Grade 11Organic Chemistry

i find it very difficult to make out whether two compounds are enantiomers, diastreomers or identical. pls help

Profile image of varsha rao
15 Years agoGrade 11
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15 Years ago

Dear Varsha

In chemistry, an enantiomer is one of two stereoisomers that are mirror images of each other that are "non-superposable" (not identical), much as one's left and right hands are "the same" but opposite

File:Milchsäure Enantiomerenpaar.svg

Diastereomers:diastereoisomers stereoisomers that are not enantiomers.Diastereomerism occurs when two or more stereoisomers of a compound have different configurations at one or more (but not all) of the equivalent (related) stereocenters and are not mirror images of each other

Diastereomers
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D-Threose D-Erythrose

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