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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

when checking chirality for a tetrahedral, let's take carbon as an example, will two enantiomers or diastereomes of a group attached to same carbon cause chirality at that carbon, I mean are they considered different for comparing valencies and what about r/s naming , will cis trans , which enantiomer (supposing one chirality centre each) have more priority in cip?

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10 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Bhavya
10 Years ago
Dear student
Enantiomer (optical isomer): Stereoisomers that are nonsuperposable mirror images.
Diastereomer: One of a set of stereoisomers that are not enantiomers.
1.) Multiple stereocenters.
2.) Impossible for one stereocenter to be superposable on its mirror image
For eg
505-1930_Diastereomers.GIF
Profile image of mrigank
10 Years ago
read question again, two enantiomers of same group attached to carbon cause chirality on that carbon or not?