Please explain enantiomers to a retard. I don't get it,
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Please explain enantiomers to a retard. I don't get it, and I've read the definitions everywhere - in my textbook, on Wikipedia, and on various chemistry sites.
Shove that stupid frog up your ass
Mirror image, compare right and left hand.
Happens when a carbon binds four different groups. If two of these groups are swapped, a mirror image is formed.
If you have a chiral carbon (a carbon atom bonded to four unique substituents), placing that compound "infront of a mirror" will give it's enantiomer. Your right hand is the enantiomer of your left hand. A good check for this is that no matter what you do, you cannot get the original connectivity of the enantiomer without breaking bonds.
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Thanks, I get it now.