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| Any compounds that have the same molecular formula. |
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| Compounds that have the same molecular formula, but whose compounds are connected differently. |
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| Compounds that have the same molecular formula and the same atomic connectivity, but differ from one another by the rotation about a single sigma bond. |
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Molecules that have the same molecular formula and connectivity but which differ from one another only in the spacial arrangement of the atom.
Cannot be interconverted by the rotation about a sigma bond.
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| Molecules whose mirror image's are non-superimposable. |
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| Stereoisomers that are not enantiomers. Non-superimposable, non-mirror images. |
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| A subclass of diastereomers that differ in their absolute configuration at a single chiral center (only one stereocenter is inverted). |
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| Epimers that form as a result of a ring closure. |
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| Diastereomers that differ in orientation of substituents around a ring or a double bond. |
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| When there is an internal plane of symmetry in a molecule that contains chiral centers. |
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