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Cahn-Ingold-Prelog - naming enantiomers question
« on: March 29, 2014, 03:27:46 PM »
What if two or more of the atoms directly connected to the chiral center are the same?
How do you number them then?

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Re: Cahn-Ingold-Prelog - naming enantiomers question
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2014, 03:52:16 PM »
Move on to the next atom in the chain.

Double and triple bonds complicate this slightly, how do you think this is?
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Re: Cahn-Ingold-Prelog - naming enantiomers question
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2014, 07:16:12 PM »
I don't really understand how to do things with double/triple bonds, multiple chiral centers, or cyclic molecules. (Though I can identify meso compounds.)

Apparently it has something to do with functional groups.

Is there a explanation somewhere I can read? (I don't want to bother you by asking you to explain it)

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