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Home Q & A Board Science-Related Homework Help Chemistry (Moderator: Laser_3)
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_lani _lani
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I know they are both stereo-isomers, but I am not sure what physical properties are different between a pair of enantiomers?

or between a pair of diastereoisomers?


by the way, I am an organic chemistry 1 student in college. I have been looking all throughout my textbook, but can't seem to find the answers I need. Please help

anyone knows? please help!!! thank you!!!
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Enantiomers are mirror images. They have identical properties except their ability to rotate plane polarized light.

Diastereomers are different compounds. They have the same substituents attached to the same atoms, but differ in the orientation of the groups in space. They are neither superimposable nor mirror images. As different compounds, they have different physical properties, IR, NMR, mp, bp, solubility, etc.

Constitutional isomers is the next closest isomers of the same molecular formula.
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