Enantiomers:

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Enantiomers are molecules which are non-superimposable mirror images of each other. A pair of enantiomers share identical physical and chemical properties with two exceptions
  1. They rotate plane polarized light in equal and opposite directions.
  2. They interact differently with other chiral molecules.



S-CHBrClF
R-CHBrClF

S-2-Butanol
R-2-Butanol

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Created October 2, 2002. KC Russell, Northern Kentucky University
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