CHM 2210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Steric Effects, Boiling Point, Protic Solvent

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Chirality is the term assigned to a molecule with no plane of symmetry a. A chiral molecule has at least one stereogenic center present. When a compound is chiral, it will have one nonsuperimposable mirror image, called its enantiomer. There are a few ways to draw an enantiomer a. The easiest way is to place the mirror behind the molecule, because the skeleton of the molecule is drawn the exact same way except all dashes become wedges and all wedges become dashes i. b. When dealing with bicyclic compounds, the easiest way is to place the mirror on the side of the compound i. Switching any two groups on a chirality center will invert the configuration a. b. c. It doesn"t matter which two groups are switch. If you switch two groups a second time, the configuration will switch back. An easy way to rotate the molecule is as follows a.

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