How do optical isomers exist?

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How do optical isomers exist?

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Answer 1 · 2016-10-01T14:48:47

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See this older answer. A carbon centre with four different groups attached to it, i.e. #CR_1R_2R_3R_4# is necessarily chiral, and can exist as 2 stereoisomers, where the one is the mirror image of the other. The stereoisomers cannot be superimposed.

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