CH ENGR 104C Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Jean-Baptiste Biot, Christiaan Huygens, Asymmetric Carbon
7 Feb 2017
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Figure 5-1 relations among isomers of various types. (source: vollhardt/ schore"s organic chemistry. Have the same molecular formula but differ in the way their atoms are connected. C4h10: stereoisomers (configurational isomers): (source: bruice 4th edition; pg. 182) Atoms are connected in the same way, but arranged differently in space. Molecules with same molecular formula, contain at least one chiral center, and are nonsuperimposable mirror images (chiral) of each other. *note: objects like the hand can be considered chiral because it"s not the same as its mirror image. Contain similar physical properties except for the direction of polarizing light therefore can"t be separated. Chiral center (stereocenter): can be an asymmetric carbon, nitrogen or phosphorus (with. Ex: (hardinger online tutorial; stereochemistry identifying stereocenter: isomers with one asymmetric carbon, can exists as 2 different isomers both of which are nonsuperimposable images of each other (analogous to left and right hand).
