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What is Optical Isomerism?

sathish b , 10 Years ago

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PRAPULPODISHETTI

Some complexes which can have non-superimposable mirror image can exhibit optical isomerism. Dextro isomer rotatesplane of polarised right towards light and laevoisomer rotates plane of polarised light towards left

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RAKESH CHINDAM

Optical isomers: are molecules that differ three-dimensionally by the placement of substituents around one or more atoms in a molecule. Optical isomers were given their name because they were first able to be distinguished by how they rotated plane-polarized light.

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E.Nandhini ketha

Optical isomers are two compounds which contain the same number and kinds of atoms, and bonds and different spatial arrangements of the atoms, but which have non-superimposable mirror images.

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