Comment on Enantiomers

• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Not any molecule, it’s gotta be able to have stereoisomers in the first place. There’s no R or S water for example.

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well yes, it does have to have chirality, I just meant it doesn’t have to contain any specific elements.

    I’m definitely no expert, but isn’t the D/L notation used in all of chemistry? Sometimes it’s written Δ/Λ, but that’s the same thing. Doesn’t it just describe a molecule’s geometry in a different way from R/S?

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      D/L refers to the entire molecule and how it polarizes light whereas R/S looks at every chiral center and has a priority system to assign. I’ve only really seen D/L in biochemistry, regular chemistry is using R/S notation. It’s much more specific and isn’t related to polarization of light.

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• FoxyFerengi@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fair! I’ve only taken organic chemistry so far, so that’s what I remembered

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