What are Diastereomers? ?? Explain with some examples? ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-02-22T00:43:35

Diastereomers are non-superimposable non-mirror images of a molecule with more than one (usually) chirality center.

Consider (2R, 3R)-2-chloro-3-methylpentane,

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If we invert one (not both!), then we obtain,

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a diastereomer of the molecule.

If we inverted both, then we would have an enantiomer, which is the non-superimposable mirror image of the molecule.