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Explain the following terms : Enant...

Explain the following terms :
Enantiomers

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Enantiomers : These are optically active compounds that are non - super imposable on their mirror images.

Butan-2-ol has four different groups attached to the tetrahedral carbon as expected it is chiral. The pair of Butan-2-ol and its mirror image molecules are called enatiomers.
If one isomer is dextro rotatery, the another is a laevo rotatory and vice - versa.
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