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Consider a molecule with 3 chiral centers all marked R. Is this molecule the same as the S version?

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    – Mathew Mahindaratne
    Commented Apr 6, 2020 at 4:15

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No I don't think both will be the same.They will be enantiomers or non superimposable mirror images of each other.I am sharing a simple trick to find the isomers of a compound with 3 chiral centres instead-

RRR and its enantiomer SSS

SRR and its enantiomer RSS

SSR and its enantiomer RRS

SRS and its enantiomer RSR

With makes a total of 8! You can generalize the formula by 2 raised to the power n (where n is number of chiral centres)

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