Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Isomerism

Major Topics

Structural isomerism

Stereo isomerism

Structural isomerism is further classifed as

Chain or Nuclear Isomerism
Functional isomerism
Metamerism
Tautomerism

Sterio isomerism is further classfied as

Geometrical isomerism
Optical isomerism, enantiomerism or d,l isomerism

Geometrical isomerism - E and Z configuration

Optical isomerism has the follwing concenpts

Diastereomer
erthroenantiomers
Threoenantiomers
Meso compound
Racemic mixture
R and S configuration

Conformations

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