enantiomer

Examples of enantiomer in the following topics:

• Organic Enantiomers

  • Enantiomers are two optical isomers (i.e. isomers that are reflections of each other).
  • Enantiomers of each other often show different chemical reactions with other substances that are also enantiomers.
  • Since many molecules in the bodies of living beings are enantiomers themselves, there is sometimes a marked difference in the effects of two enantiomers on living beings.
  • In drugs, for example, often only one of a drug's enantiomers is responsible for the desired physiologic effects, while the other enantiomer is less active, inactive, or sometimes even responsible for adverse effects.
  • D-alanine and L-alanine are examples of enantiomers or mirror images.

• Organic Isomers

  • (c) Enantiomers are mirror images of each other.