"Note carefully the difference between enantiomers and diastereomers: enantiomers have opposite configurations at all …"

"When chemists make chiral compounds—molecules that behave like object and mirror image, such as amino acids, sugars, …"

"If we were to isolate each enantiomer in pure form, we would find that we could not distinguish between them on the b…"

"In contrast with enantiomers, diastereomers, because they are not mirror images of each other, are molecules with dif…"

"Constitutional isomerism is not limited to alkanes—it occurs widely throughout organic chemistry. Constitutional isom…"

"In earlier times, when relatively few pure organic chemicals were known, new compounds were named at the whim of thei…"

"Heterolytic retrosynthetic disconnection of a carbon-carbon bond in a molecule breaks the TM into an acceptor synthon…"

"Organometallic chemists try to understand how organic molecules or groups interact with compounds of the inorganic el…"

"During the first half of this century most syntheses were developed by selecting an appropriate starting material, af…"

"The construction of a synthetic tree by working backward from the target molecule (TM) is called retrosynthetic analy…"