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What are enantiomers?

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1. An optically active substance may exist in two or more isomeric forms which have same physical and chemical properties but differ in terms of direction of rotation of plane polarised light, such optical isomers which rotate the plane polarised light with equal angle but in opposite directions are known as enantiomers and (he phenomenon is known as enantiomerism.

2. Isomers which are non-super impossible mirror images of each other are called enantiomers.

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