OCHEM optical isomers vs rotamers

[pepocho]

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[Entadus]

Rotamers is totally different. Talking about conformation here, like for ethane, going through eclipsed and staggered conformations....

(Same molecule but rotated around single bond)

 

[Entadus]

Maybe the confusing thing is that optical isomers will rotate plane polarized light (clockwise or CCW). We're talking about stereoisomerism, here. Nothing to do with "rotamers"

 

[pepocho]

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