Timeline for Differentiating identical and enantiomers
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| Jan 24, 2023 at 14:07 | history | edited | Karsten♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2023 at 12:22 | history | edited | Poutnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2023 at 9:24 | history | edited | Poutnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2023 at 9:24 | comment | added | Anonymous | I see it now, Thank you. What I was doing wrong was trying to match upper half to upper and not considering rotation of the molecule. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 9:16 | comment | added | Poutnik | Properly rotated, the upper molecule half is the mirror image of the lower half. If you mirror the whole molecule, the upper half becomes the lower half and vice versa, leading to the identical molecule. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 9:01 | comment | added | Poutnik | Imagine a ball, laid on a table. Imaging joining 4 other balls by 4 pins, pointing up, down, left, right. that is how it is drawn on your image above. But the reality is like if you lift this flat model by hands and force up and down pins to point little down and left / right pins little up. Follow also the Fischer projection link. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 8:56 | comment | added | Anonymous | Sorry, I still don’t get it. Just as you said these are 3D arrangements , if I turn this into a wedge and dash structure to visualise it in 3D space I am still getting two different molecules which are mirror images. How are they identical. I am sorry I really don’t understand. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 8:52 | history | edited | Poutnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2023 at 8:41 | history | edited | Poutnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2023 at 8:17 | comment | added | Anonymous | The answer of the question is that these are identical. My answer was that these are enantiomers but it is wrong, so what I am not understanding is that how are these identical. If I consider flipping the molecule that would result in every pair of enantiomers being identical. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 8:02 | history | edited | Poutnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2023 at 7:57 | history | edited | Poutnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2023 at 6:49 | history | answered | Poutnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |