What is enantiomer?
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Amar Kumar 8 years, 1 month ago
Enantiomer is an optical isomer, is one of two stereoisomers that are mirror images of each other that are non-superposable, much as one's left and right hands are the same except for being reversed along one axis.
Enantiomers have identical chemical and physical properties except for their ability to rotate plane-polarized light (+/-) by equal amounts but in opposite directions.
Enantiomers interact differently with other chiral molecules i.e. biologically active molecules as aminoacids, sugars, steroids etc. This means that some molecules have, for example, different odours. Limonene is just such a case. Two chemical structures of mirror-image molecules, i.e. enantiomers, which cannot be superimposed. D-(+)-limonene (left) and L-(-)-limonene (right)
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