Wednesday, February 3, 2010

<true> <false> diastereomers are superimposable non-mirror images.?

%26lt;true%26gt; %26lt;false%26gt; diastereomers are superimposable non-mirror images.


please help me. it's my homework...%26lt;true%26gt; %26lt;false%26gt; diastereomers are superimposable non-mirror images.?
The answer to this is FALSE.





Diastereomers, by definition, are not mirror images of each other (thus, they are NOT enantiomers). But while this is true, they are, at the same time, NON-SUPERIMPOSABLE, making the statement false.





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