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please give a link to an article on optical isomerism which covers everything with good examples.

please give a link to an article on optical isomerism which covers everything with good examples.

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SAGAR SINGH - IIT DELHI
878 Points
13 years ago

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. These molecules are not necessarily locked into their positions, but cannot be converted into one another, even by a rotation around a single bond.

For example, consider the following two molecules.


Arman Singh
16 Points
13 years ago

Well I know the basics but I am looking for some tough solved problems on this topic. 

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