Class 12 Chemistry simulations · Haloalkanes and Haloarenes

Chirality and enantiomers

Compare a chiral molecule with its mirror image and try to superimpose them.

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What to notice

Enantiomers cannot be superimposed and rotate plane-polarised light equally in opposite directions, e.g. (+)- and (−)-butan-2-ol (±13.5°).

Key relation

A carbon with four different groups is a stereocentre; its mirror images are enantiomers

Try this

Rotate the right-hand molecule. Can you make it match the left one?

What you can change

• Rotate the mirror image: 0 to 360 °

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