enantiomer

See also: Enantiomer

English

Etymology

enantio- +‎ -mer

Pronunciation

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Noun

enantiomer (plural enantiomers)

A pair of enantiomers; Even when the left image is rotated around the vertical axis, one H atom will be in front of the plane while the other is behind.

1. (chemistry) One of a pair of stereoisomers that is the mirror image of the other, but may not be superimposed on this other stereoisomer. Almost always, a pair of enantiomers contain at least one chiral center, and a sample of either enantiomer will be optically active.

Synonyms

• enantiomorph
• optical isomer

Derived terms

• enantiomeric

Translations

one of a pair of mirror-image stereoisomers

• Arabic: مُتَصَاوِغ اِنْعِكَاسِيّ (mutaṣāwiḡ inʕikāsiyy), مُتَصَاوِغ مِرْآتِيّ (mutaṣāwiḡ mirʔātiyy)
• Danish: enantiomer
• Dutch: enantiomeer (nl)
• Esperanto: enantiomero, spegulizomero
• Finnish: enantiomeeri (fi)
• French: énantiomère (fr)
• German: Enantiomer
• Hebrew: אננטיומר
• Hungarian: enantiomer (hu)
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• Italian: enantiomero (it)
• Korean: 거울상체 (geoulsangche)
• Malay: enantiomer
• Maori: poinanaha whakaata
• Polish: enancjomer
• Portuguese: enantiómero (pt) m (Portugal), enantiômero (pt) m (Brazil)
• Russian: энантиоме́р (ru) m (enantiomér)
• Spanish: enantiómero
• Swedish: enantiomer

See also

• diastereoisomer
• dextro-, D-
• levo-, L-

Anagrams

• namirotene, renominate