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Conformational Isomerism

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what is difference between chiral compounds and enantiomers

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Enantiomers are pairs of stereoisomers that are chiral. A chiral molecule is non-superimposable on its mirror image, so that the mirror image is actually a different molecule. The two non-identical mirror images are a pair of enantiomers.

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