Just earlier this year (2018 at point of writing), an exciting discovery has been made! A new form of steroisomerism… Read more Akamptisomerism: The last kind of Isomerism?

Now that we know about various types of stereoisomers, we also need to know how to identify and separate them. In… Read more Chiral Chromatography: Separating Twins

In previous entries, we have discussed about enantiomers and how they have different arrangements in space. These different enantiomers can… Read more Chiral Environments: Sometimes, the environment shapes you

Welcome to another blog post! We hope that you have been having a great learning experience so far. In the… Read more Stereospecificity & Stereoselectivity: Isomeric-Inequality

Welcome to another blog post about another type of stereoisomer, Atropisomers!  “Atropisomers” is a word that is derived from Greek. “A” means… Read more Atropisomers : When the tables cannot turn

In this post, conformers are back in town to spin the carbon bonds around.   We know that a compound with… Read more Conformational Isomers : Look how the tables have turned

In the first post, we have introduced you to the concept of cis-trans and E-Z isomerism but have not gone into the details. So, the time… Read more Cis-trans and E-Z Isomerism : Pick your side

Now, let us delve deeper into the concept of enantiomers. Enantiomers refer to isomers that are non-superimposable mirror images of one another.… Read more Enantiomers: Same but not really